Shmuel
Just over 150 Polish men carry it, so most people here have never met a Shmuel. The name is Hebrew and means "heard by God".
Shmuel Pronunciation
What Shmuel means
Where Shmuel comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shmuel is the Hebrew name that stands behind Samuel. It comes from שְׁמוּאֵל, Shemu'el, built from a root meaning to hear and the element El, God. Read that way, the name means heard by God.
The Bible gives it a second sense. In the first book of Samuel, Hannah longs for a child and asks the Lord for a son. When the boy arrives she names him, saying she had asked him of God. The Polish gloss keeps that scene: wyproszony od boga, begged from God. So two readings sit inside one name. One points to a God who hears, the other to a mother who asked.
Samuel grows into a prophet who anoints Israel's first kings. For Jewish families the name has stayed close to that history for centuries. It rarely trims down to a nickname. Shmuel is Shmuel, plain and whole.
Open a Polish class register today and you may still find a Samuel among the children. The Hebrew root behind him means heard by God.
How many people are named Shmuel
1 in 138612 men in Poland is named Shmuel. 154 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2612 among male names.
Shmuel as a middle name
Shmuel is a first name for 154 men in Poland and a middle name for another 107, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 684th, between Mike (107) and Sławek (107).
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#682 Furkan107
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#683 Mike107
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#684 Shmuel107
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#685 Sławek107
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#686 Văn107