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Shemuel - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Shemuel

[ syll. (s)he-muel, sh-emu-el ] The boy name Shemuel is pronounced as -SHEHMYuwL KEY. Shemuel is used mostly in Yiddish and its language of origin is Hebrew. Shemuel is a variant form of the English, French, and German name Samuel.

Shemuel is not widely used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names. In 2008, among the group of boy names directly related to Shemuel, the English, French, and German Samuel was the most commonly used.

Baby names that sound like Shemuel include the English Samel, the English Sammel, the Greek Samouel, the English, French, and German Samuel, the Indian Sunil, the Russian Samoyla, the English Samual, the Italian Samuele, the Russian and Slavic Samuil, the Finnish Samuli, the Yiddish Schmuel, the Hebrew Shmuel, and the Arabic, English, and Turkish Cemal.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Shemuel: SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"


 
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