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The SAMUEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 19,225 1711 0.007 71
United States (1880 census) 3,329 1842 0.007 67
Change since 1880 +15896 +131 0 +4
Other Countries
Australia 787 2057 0.005 48
United Kingdom 4,923 1272 0.011 107
Top States for SAMUEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,506 728 0.013 132
Texas 1,822 1454 0.009 87
Florida 1,664 1338 0.010 104
California 1,415 2403 0.004 42
South Carolina 1,132 618 0.028 282
Top States for SAMUEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
South Carolina 1,132 618 0.028 282
Washington DC 110 603 0.019 192
Maryland 724 884 0.014 137
New York 2,506 728 0.013 132
Louisiana 503 1360 0.011 113

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SAMUEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SAMUEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SAMUEL in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SAMUEL by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SAMUEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SAMUEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SAMUEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SAMUEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 665 3.46
White (Hispanic) 565 2.94
Native American/Alaskan 186 0.97
Black/African American 10,685 55.58
White (Caucasian) 4,843 25.19
Asian/Pacific 2,280 11.86

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SAMUEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SAMUEL in historical publications

SAMUEL. A surname, pretty equally shared by Jews and Christians. It has given rise to Samuels, Sams, Samson, Sampson, Samkin, Sanqakin, Sammes, and perhaps SamwcU — but this last may be local.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SAMUEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAMUEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SAMUEL

The following words are slight variants of SAMUEL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.