Shmuel
#920 for boys in 2025, 256 births
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 253 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,972since 1953
Shmuel over time
Rank among boys' names. Shmuel has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #920 | 256 |
| 2024 | #967 | 234 |
| 2023 | #927 | 246 |
| 2022 | #913 | 253 |
| 2021 | #1,046 | 205 |
| 2020 | #1,029 | 200 |
| 2019 | #1,023 | 203 |
| 2018 | #1,029 | 198 |
| 2017 | #940 | 222 |
| 2016 | #999 | 204 |
| 2015 | #1,016 | 200 |
| 2014 | #1,147 | 165 |
| 2013 | #1,031 | 187 |
| 2012 | #1,212 | 147 |
| 2011 | #1,229 | 142 |
| 2010 | #1,056 | 182 |
| 2009 | #1,298 | 135 |
| 2008 | #1,233 | 141 |
| 2007 | #1,237 | 142 |
| 2006 | #1,294 | 128 |
| 2005 | #1,381 | 108 |
| 2004 | #1,349 | 108 |
| 2003 | #1,451 | 90 |
| 2002 | #1,406 | 93 |
| 2001 | #1,345 | 96 |
| 2000 | #1,466 | 84 |
| 1999 | #1,277 | 96 |
| 1998 | #1,359 | 86 |
| 1997 | #1,499 | 70 |
| 1996 | #1,533 | 65 |
| 1995 | #1,319 | 79 |
| 1994 | #1,516 | 62 |
| 1993 | #1,313 | 75 |
| 1992 | #1,340 | 71 |
| 1991 | #1,422 | 64 |
| 1990 | #1,530 | 55 |
| 1989 | #1,398 | 61 |
| 1988 | #1,296 | 63 |
| 1987 | #1,133 | 72 |
| 1986 | #1,439 | 48 |
| 1985 | #1,389 | 49 |
| 1984 | #1,240 | 55 |
| 1983 | #1,275 | 52 |
| 1982 | #1,464 | 43 |
| 1981 | #1,433 | 44 |
| 1980 | #1,765 | 32 |
| 1979 | #1,598 | 36 |
| 1978 | #1,760 | 30 |
| 1977 | #1,948 | 25 |
| 1976 | #1,873 | 26 |
| 1975 | #1,630 | 31 |
| 1974 | #1,747 | 27 |
| 1973 | #2,857 | 12 |
| 1972 | #2,080 | 19 |
| 1971 | #2,203 | 18 |
| 1970 | #1,989 | 20 |
| 1969 | #2,861 | 10 |
| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #1,974 | 16 |
| 1966 | #2,784 | 9 |
| 1965 | #2,617 | 10 |
| 1964 | #3,601 | 6 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #3,097 | 8 |
| 1960 | #2,535 | 11 |
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| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shmuel! It came in at #3,143, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1955–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shmuel is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#85 · 1 in 363
- New York#235 · 1 in 1,055
- Florida#1,475 · 1 in 13,662
- California#2,205 · 1 in 30,044
Best ever in a state: #79 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #85 | 110 | 1 in 363 |
| New York | #235 | 82 | 1 in 1,055 |
| Florida | #1,475 | 7 | 1 in 13,662 |
| California | #2,205 | 6 | 1 in 30,044 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shmuel
- 47 spots since 2024 (#967 → #920)
- 109 spots since 2020 (#1,029 → #920)
- 96 spots since 2015 (#1,016 → #920)
- Biggest jump: 133 spots in 2022 (#1,046 → #913)
- Biggest drop: 89 spots in 2018 (#940 → #1,029)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 2022 at #913 (253 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 2022–2025
- Highest: 1 in 6,672 boys born in 2025 were named Shmuel (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #913 in 2022, was only 1 in 6,901 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.0% of all boys named Shmuel (1,850) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 23 | #3,143 (1953) | #3,606 |
| 1960s | 94 | #1,974 (1967) | #2,873 |
| 1970s | 244 | #1,598 (1979) | #1,969 |
| 1980s | 519 | #1,133 (1987) | #1,383 |
| 1990s | 723 | #1,277 (1999) | #1,411 |
| 2000s | 1,125 | #1,233 (2008) | #1,346 |
| 2010s | 1,850 | #940 (2017) | #1,068 |
| 2020s | 1,394 | #913 (2022) | #967 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shmuel in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 7,363 of them was named Shmuel, which outranked 93.2% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.