Samuel
857
Babies in 2024
-72%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 6.37k
-2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Samuel
Samuel peaked among UK boys' names in the late 1990s (6,367 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 857 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Samuel reached its peak in 1997, when 6,367 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #7 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 857 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 108,505 boys have been officially registered with the name Samuel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 18,656 boys were registered with the name, starting from 3,021 in 2014 and ending at 857 in 2024.