girls:
45 births since 2005
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
42 births since 1990
#4544 (1st percentile)
overall:
87 births since 1990
#7652 (1st percentile)
The name Samuela is the #7,652 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 87 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 2005. For boys, it ranks #4,544 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1990.
Samuela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Samuela is available in 13 out of the 34 years between 1990 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.
The name Samuela is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Samuela were boys. Interestingly, until around 2006, the name was more popular for boys (77.8% boys from 1990 to 2005), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (65.0% girls from 2006 to 2023).
For girls, Samuela reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #947) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Samuela reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #799) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Samuela ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 91.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Samuela".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Samuela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.5% confident that Samuela is pronounced as sa-myue-EH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SA-myue-EH-luh, at 32.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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