Samuel Family History
- Samuel Name Meaning
- English, Scottish, Welsh, French, German, Dutch, Hungarian (Sámuel), Jewish, and South Indian: from the Biblical male personal name Samuel (Hebrew Shemuel ‘Name of God’). This name is also well established in South India. In North America this has absorbed other European cognates such as Greek Samouelidis. It is found as a personal name among Christians in India, and in the U.S. is used as a family name among families from southern India.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 837,326 Historical Documents with Samuel on Ancestry
- 323,100 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 164,860 Census and Voter Lists
- 27,560 Military Records
- 47,143 Immigration Records
- 274,663 Member Trees
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Number of Samuel families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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486 - 970 163 - 485 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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89 - 175 30 - 88 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- 136
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