Samil
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- shah-MEEL
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Samil is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “comprehensive, all-embracing”. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
What does Samil mean?
Arabic: Turkish Şamil, from Arabic shamil
“comprehensive, all-embracing”
Recalls Imam Shamil, the nineteenth-century leader of resistance to Russia in the Caucasus.
Is Samil a girl's or a boy's name?
Samil is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Samil in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,906th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Samil, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the boys named Samil in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Samil in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,136 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,300 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,801 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,726 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,132 |
Names like Samil
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zahir, Hamza, Zayd, Zayan, Muhammad, Musa, Saif, Zamir, Ahmir, Musab, Said, Abdullah
Names related to Samil
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Samil: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/samil, updated 20 October 2026.