samuel – Page 3 – Nancy’s Baby Names

How popular is the baby name Samuel in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Samuel.

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Popularity of the baby name Samuel

Posts that mention the name Samuel

November 3, 2025October 31, 2025

Baby born in Wyoming, named Wyoming

Wyoming B. Paris (1906-2001) — Wyoming B. Paris (circa 1920)

In the early 1900s, dozens of Jewish families living in crowded cities in the eastern U.S. attempted to resettle on the high plains of eastern Wyoming.

Among the first of the homesteaders were Ukrainian immigrants Samuel and Rachel Paris, who left Pittsburgh with their six children to establish a sheep ranch outside of Torrington, Wyoming, in 1906.

Later the same year, the Parises welcomed their seventh child — a baby boy. He was the first Jewish baby born in the state of Wyoming, which had been admitted to the union in 1890.

What was he named?

Wyoming Benjamin Paris.

Wyoming-the-baby didn’t live in Wyoming-the-state for very long, though, because the Paris family returned to Pittsburgh in the 1910s. (Most of the other Jewish settlers eventually gave up and moved elsewhere as well.)

But Wyoming “Wy” Paris did go on to become a star semi-pro basketball player in the 1920s and ’30s. In fact, he was inducted into the Western Pennsylvania Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.

Sources:

“Wyoming B. Paris: Basketball star known as ‘Masked Marvel’.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 25 May 2001: B-5.
Paris, Barry. “Song of Squirrel Hill.” Pittsburgh Quarterly 20 Feb. 2006.
Wyoming Benjamin Paris (1906-2001) – The Strangest Names In American Political History
Paris, Barry – 1998 – Tape 1, Side 1 – Historic Pittsburgh
Hallberg, Carl V. “The Jews of Huntley, Wyoming.” WyoHistory.org 21 Dec. 2015.

Image: Adapted from Enoch Rauh Club 1919-20 (public domain) via Historic Pittsburgh

October 16, 2025January 30, 2026

Popular baby names in Ukraine, 2023

The country of Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe. It shares a border with Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova.

According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice, the top baby names of 2023 in the center-west part of the country — the city of Kyiv plus five nearby oblasts (Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy) — were Mariya (Maria) and Yeva (Eva) for girls and Mark and Oleksandr (Alexander) for boys.

Here’s a visual of the area:

Below you’ll find the top names for each of the six locations. Rankings weren’t specified, so, in the tables below, I’ve written the names in the order in which they appeared in the news release.

Kyiv (city)

Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, has a population of over 2.9 million. Here are Kyiv’s top baby names of 2023:

	Girl names	Boy names
City of Kyiv	Mariya Solomiya Yeva Polina	Maksym Mark Tymofiy Oleksandr Danylo Mykhaylo

The city’s rare names included…

Girls: Paulina, Oriyana, Yevdokiya, Klara, Vesna, Vedana, Dana, Astrid, Dzvinka-Iya, Sakhara, Oktaviya, Vohnena, Ariya, Afina-Penelopa, Yaruna, Dzvinka, Kylyna, Emmanuela, Ilariya, Mahda, Yustyna, Freya, Hlafira, Matilda, Iulianiya, Inha, Lili, Leonida, Zoreslava, Afina, Nefa
Boys: Zoreslav, Leslav, Yanislav, Veles, Ratmyr, Kyy, Lyutsyfer, Hraf, Korniy, Budymyr, Vir, Eney, Serafym, Yerofiy, Lyuksor, Elizar, Ioann, Harri, Adonis, Ares, Iliodor, Mars, Teo, Yan, Domian, Zevs, Hrey, Kay

Lyutsyfer and Lyuksor are the Ukrainian versions of Lucifer and Luxor, and Veles is the Slavic god of the underworld.