Hershel
Hershel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 47 births. Its best rank was 391st, in 1932.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 470.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1924226 births
- Best rank
- #391in 1932
- Since 1880
- 10,279people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,279 boys have been named Hershel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 226 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hershel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 47 | |
| 1890s | 73 | |
| 1900s | 202 | |
| 1910s | 1,128 | |
| 1920s | 2,032 | |
| 1930s | 1,756 | |
| 1940s | 1,440 | |
| 1950s | 1,006 | |
| 1960s | 652 | |
| 1970s | 411 | |
| 1980s | 306 | |
| 1990s | 263 | |
| 2000s | 361 | |
| 2010s | 386 | |
| 2020s | 216 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Hershel was the 409th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Hershel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hiltonpeak 1920
- Wiltonpeak 1924
- Delmarpeak 1931
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Talmadgepeak 1933
- Odellpeak 1922
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.