Samuel

Samuel is the 1,408th most common surname in the United States, shared by 24,616 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 12,100.

By the numbers

People: 24,616
Rank: 1,408th
How common: 1 in 12,100
Per 100,000: 8.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Samuel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 52.1%
White, not Hispanic 19.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 19.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Samuel

Walter Samuel (born 1978)Argentine association football player
Xavier Samuel (born 1983)Australian actor
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870–1963)British politician
Jlloyd Samuel (1981–2018)Trinidadian association football player
Arthur Samuel (1901–1990)American computer scientist
Samuel (born 2002)South Korean, American and Mexican singer and rapper
Evelin Samuel (born 1975)Estonian actress and singer
Bright Osayi-Samuel (born 1997)Nigerian association football player

People named Samuel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Samuel

Also a first name

Samuel has been given to 823,085 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.