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Baby name
Samuel
Boy
Origin of the name
Samuel comes, through Latin, from the Hebrew Shemuel. In the Bible, he is the prophet who anointed the first kings of Israel, Saul and then David.
Classic name
820,196births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 26rank at its peak, in 2001
Where babies named Samuel are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Samuel is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Samuel is most common in Alaska (1.7 times), South Carolina (1.5) and Delaware (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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