Samuel is a male name, in Croatia principally Croatian, but also Slovak and Italian. It is one of the quite common names (among the top thousand) in Croatia, with over four hundred namesakes living there.
The relative popularity of names Samuel in Croatia
The name Samuel was the most popular from years 2006 to 2011, when about 26% of the persons bearing this name were born. The peak year was 2011.
Prevalence
Name Samuel is relatively more common in the north of the country. Most of the persons named Samuel live in the following cities and municipalities: Zagreb (about twenty), Pula (less than twenty), Ilok (less than ten).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over eighty times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.