Hershell
Hershell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 871st, in 1903.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192045 births
- Best rank
- #871in 1903
- Since 1899
- 1,847people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,847 boys have been named Hershell in the United States since 1899, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 45 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 45 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hershell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 28 | |
| 1910s | 185 | |
| 1920s | 380 | |
| 1930s | 365 | |
| 1940s | 330 | |
| 1950s | 265 | |
| 1960s | 142 | |
| 1970s | 94 | |
| 1980s | 48 | |
| 1990s | 5 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Hershell was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Hershell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Winfordpeak 1928
- Sherwoodpeak 1938
- Eldonpeak 1926
- Lowellpeak 1931
- Delmerpeak 1924
- Reynoldpeak 1922
- Lylepeak 1922
- Arvilpeak 1924
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.