Samuil
An Eastern spelling of the Hebrew Shmuel, "God has heard": the shape Russian speakers use, once carried by an eleventh-century Bulgarian tsar. In Poland it stays a rarity, ranked past 2,000, where a boy called Samuil stands apart from the Samuels beside him.
Samuil Pronunciation
Samuil is pronounced sah-MOO-eel (/saˈmuil/).
What Samuil means
Where Samuil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Samuil comes from the Hebrew Shmuel, and the name makes a plain claim: God has heard. In the biblical account, a mother named Hannah asks for a son, and the child's name records the answer. That older sense sits behind every later spelling, including the Western Samuel, the variant most Polish readers will meet first.
The form Samuil belongs to the East. It is the shape Russian speakers use, written in Cyrillic long before it was ever fitted to a Polish register. Bulgaria had a Tsar Samuil who ruled from 997 to 1014, so the same Hebrew root once sat on an eleventh-century throne.
In Poland the name reads as a guest. A boy called Samuil on a class register stands slightly apart from the Samuels beside him. The Polish gloss keeps the request folded into the sense: uproszony od Boga, someone asked for and given.
How many people are named Samuil
1 in 120600 men in Poland is named Samuil. 177 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2395 among male names.
Samuil's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Samuil as a middle name
Samuil is a first name for 177 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 98/2 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6815th, between Samsul (3) and Sandile (3).
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