Herschel
Herschel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 20 births. Its best rank was 281st, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 200.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1921277 births
- Best rank
- #281in 1901
- Since 1880
- 10,640people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,640 boys have been named Herschel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 277 births.
The name has all but left use: 20 births in 2024, against 277 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 84 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Herschel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 150 | |
| 1890s | 262 | |
| 1900s | 359 | |
| 1910s | 1,701 | |
| 1920s | 2,258 | |
| 1930s | 1,476 | |
| 1940s | 1,296 | |
| 1950s | 1,012 | |
| 1960s | 591 | |
| 1970s | 376 | |
| 1980s | 402 | |
| 1990s | 262 | |
| 2000s | 144 | |
| 2010s | 204 | |
| 2020s | 147 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Herschel was the 361st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Herschel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lesterpeak 1918
- Clementpeak 1918
- Floydpeak 1926
- Basilpeak 1924
- Ewellpeak 1919
- Earlpeak 1921
- Ottispeak 1920
- Erwinpeak 1918
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.