Samuela
A feminine take on Samuel, from the Hebrew for "name of god". Only about 62 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Samuela Pronunciation
Samuela is pronounced sah-moo-E-lah (/samuˈɛla/).
What Samuela means
Where Samuela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Samuela is the feminine of Samuel, and Samuel comes from the Hebrew name Shemu'el, read as "name of God." In Italy the form Samuela reads as clearly female, the sister-name to a boy called Samuele. So the cross-gender pair sits inside one root. Both children answer to the same meaning.
The biblical Samuel was a prophet who anointed Israel's first kings. That story gave the name its long reach across Europe. Samuela keeps the Hebrew sense while wearing an Italian ending, the final -a that Italian and Polish both hear as feminine.
The gloss "name of God" is a reading of the Hebrew, not a slogan the parents recite. It ties the child to an old grammar of naming. Picture a Polish class register where Samuela stands one line below Samuel. The two forms sort together, share a name-day, and split only at that last vowel. What holds them is the Hebrew root and its short meaning, imię boże.
When Samuela celebrates name day
Samuela appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 20 August.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Samuela
1 in 363610 women in Poland is named Samuela. 62 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4672 among female names.
Samuela's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Samuela as a middle name
Samuela is a first name for 62 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 61/39 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1118th, between Pearl (39) and Thu (39).
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#1116 Noa39
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#1117 Pearl39
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#1118 Samuela39
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#1119 Thu39
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#1120 Violet39