The name Samuel is usually given to a Boy.
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The origin of the name lies in Hebrew.
Samuel is pronounced as SAEMYuwL
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Samuel is an Anglicized form of the Hebrew name 'Shemuel or Shmuel', derived from the Hebrew words 'shama', which means 'to hear', and 'El', which means 'God or all powerful'.
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Meaning
Meaning 'God has heard' or 'asked of God'. Contains the Hebrew elements 'schma'- to hear and 'el'- God.
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Meaning
From the Hebrew name שְׁמוּאֵל (Shemuʾel) meaning "name of God", from the roots שֵׁם (
Shem) meaning "name" and אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God". Other interpretations have the first root being שָׁמַע (shamaʿ) meaning "to hear" leading to a meaning of "God has heard". As told in the Books of
Samuel in the Old Testament,
Samuel was the last of the ruling judges.
He led the Israelites during a period of domination by the Philistines, who were ultimately defeated in battle at Mizpah. Later
He anointed
Saul to be the first
King of
Israel, and even later anointed his successor
David.As a
Christian name,
Samuel came into common use after the Protestant Reformation. It has been consistently popular in the English-speaking world, ranking yearly in the top 100 names in the United States (as recorded since 1880) and performing similarly well in the United Kingdom.Famous bearers include
English poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), American inventor
Samuel Morse (1791-1872),
Irish writer
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), and American actor
Samuel L.
Jackson (1948-). This was also the real name,
Samuel Clemens, of the American author
Mark Twain (1835-1910).
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Pronunciation
/ˈsæm.juː.əl/(English) /ˈsæm.jəl/(English) /sa.mɥɛl/(French) /ˈzaː.mu̯eːl/(German) /ˈsaː.my.ɛl/(Dutch) /sa.ˈmwel/(Spanish) /sɐ.mu.ˈɛɫ/(European Portuguese) /sa.mu.ˈɛw/(Brazilian Portuguese) /sa.ˈmu.ɛl/(Polish) /ˈsa.mu.ɛl/(Czech, Slovak) SA-moo-ehl(Swedish) /ˈsɑ.mu.el/(Finnish)