The name Samuel is a male name with English origin. It is pronounced as SAM-yool (/ˈsæm.juːl/). Samuel is a variation of the name Sameul. In the United States, Samuel has been a consistently popular name for newborn boys over the years. It ranked 9687th in popularity in 2017, with 7 occurrences. The name has remained within the top 500 most popular names since at least 1922, and it reached its peak in popularity during the 1990s and early 2000s.