Samuel Family Name and Heraldry

Samuel and Samuels are two spellings with one history. In origin, the name means “Son of Samuel”.

• Samuel drops the “s” of Samuels, a shortening that clerks often made.
• 2,636 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Samuel name at birth. Births ran at 154 in 1891–1900 and 238 in 1991–2000. Spanish statistics put 250 people with Samuel in first position and 174 in second.

Heraldry and the Samuel name

Arms linked to Samuels and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Samuel report, with a museum-style coat of arms.