How Many People Are Named Shmuel?
people named Shmuel are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 58,584 people in the US has this name
Based on 5,972 babies named Shmuel in Social Security records from 1953 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
256 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Hebrew form of SAMUEL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Shmuel in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shmuel alive today is about 17 years old, and 80% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 26 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shmuel first appears in the records in 1953, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 256 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1953 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shmuel has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #919, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #923.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #923 |
| Best rank | #919 (2022) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,060 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shmuel alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shmuel were born in New York than in any other state: about 2,947 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shmuel was given 13 times as often in New Jersey and 9.4 times in New York.
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