boys:
5.6k births since 1880
#1589 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.6k births since 1880
#3642 (53rd percentile)
The name Samual is the #3,642 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,570 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 52.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,589 (65.3% percentile) for all time with 5,570 births since 1880.
Samual has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Samual is available in 135 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Samual reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 15.4% percentile (ranked #670) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 82 births per million (ranked 2.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Samual ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Samual".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Samual. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.7% confident that Samual is pronounced as SA-myue-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-MYUE-uhl, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AE1 M Y UW0 AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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