Meaning not yet researched.
Herschel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #281 in 1901.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #281 in 1901; #3,399 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Herschel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,399 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1901, at #281.
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Herschel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 boys in 2025. Peak: #281 in 1901 · most boys in one year: 277 (1921).
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Herschel, making it the 3,399th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,547 places from #4,946 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 20 boys named Herschel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #281, reached in 1901. The most boys given the name in a single year was 277, in 1921. For comparison, it was #3,921 in 2015 and #645 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Herschel in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 10,674 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,258 babies named Herschel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 288 US boys were named Herschel; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,238 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Herschell and Herschal are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Herschell (1,059), Herschal (26).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Herschel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 34 | #3,399 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #4,946 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,931 |
| 2022 | — | — | 23 | #4,480 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,143 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,041 |
| 2019 | — | — | 33 | #3,446 |
| 2018 | — | — | 24 | #4,279 |
| 2017 | — | — | 22 | #4,520 |
| 2016 | — | — | 28 | #3,816 |
| 2015 | — | — | 27 | #3,921 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,831 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,488 |
| 2012 | — | — | 20 | #4,764 |
| 2011 | — | — | 9 | #8,314 |
| 2010 | — | — | 10 | #7,788 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,223 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #6,904 |
| 2007 | — | — | 11 | #7,281 |
| 2006 | — | — | 26 | #3,827 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,578 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,703 |
| 2003 | — | — | 17 | #4,681 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,257 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,565 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,112 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,137 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,632 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,653 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,078 |
| 1995 | — | — | 24 | #2,958 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,510 |
| 1993 | — | — | 28 | #2,606 |
| 1992 | — | — | 33 | #2,273 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,364 |
| 1990 | — | — | 47 | #1,712 |
| 1989 | — | — | 40 | #1,871 |
| 1988 | — | — | 47 | #1,563 |
| 1987 | — | — | 40 | #1,693 |
| 1986 | — | — | 46 | #1,480 |
| 1985 | — | — | 28 | #2,038 |
| 1984 | — | — | 31 | #1,811 |
| 1983 | — | — | 56 | #1,227 |
| 1982 | — | — | 54 | #1,266 |
| 1981 | — | — | 30 | #1,873 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,878 |
| 1979 | — | — | 28 | #1,921 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,937 |
| 1977 | — | — | 30 | #1,759 |
| 1976 | — | — | 35 | #1,550 |
| 1975 | — | — | 33 | #1,570 |
| 1974 | — | — | 35 | #1,485 |
| 1973 | — | — | 32 | #1,526 |
| 1972 | — | — | 56 | #1,089 |
| 1971 | — | — | 54 | #1,116 |
| 1970 | — | — | 47 | #1,211 |
| 1969 | — | — | 58 | #1,013 |
| 1968 | — | — | 45 | #1,123 |
| 1967 | — | — | 52 | #1,010 |
| 1966 | — | — | 45 | #1,105 |
| 1965 | — | — | 53 | #1,013 |
| 1964 | — | — | 55 | #1,021 |
| 1963 | — | — | 64 | #940 |
| 1962 | — | — | 81 | #843 |
| 1961 | — | — | 72 | #908 |
| 1960 | — | — | 66 | #933 |
| 1959 | — | — | 81 | #839 |
| 1958 | — | — | 95 | #762 |
| 1957 | — | — | 98 | #760 |
| 1956 | — | — | 87 | #799 |
| 1955 | — | — | 118 | #673 |
| 1954 | — | — | 91 | #749 |
| 1953 | — | — | 106 | #695 |
| 1952 | — | — | 99 | #705 |
| 1951 | — | — | 121 | #645 |
| 1950 | — | — | 116 | #645 |
| 1949 | — | — | 125 | #608 |
| 1948 | — | — | 134 | #577 |
| 1947 | — | — | 137 | #579 |
| 1946 | — | — | 137 | #546 |
| 1945 | — | — | 119 | #550 |
| 1944 | — | — | 142 | #510 |
| 1943 | — | — | 103 | #624 |
| 1942 | — | — | 131 | #533 |
| 1941 | — | — | 135 | #507 |
| 1940 | — | — | 133 | #503 |
| 1939 | — | — | 140 | #486 |
| 1938 | — | — | 153 | #468 |
| 1937 | — | — | 132 | #501 |
| 1936 | — | — | 128 | #500 |
| 1935 | — | — | 148 | #467 |
| 1934 | — | — | 133 | #497 |
| 1933 | — | — | 141 | #474 |
| 1932 | — | — | 154 | #463 |
| 1931 | — | — | 176 | #429 |
| 1930 | — | — | 171 | #456 |
| 1929 | — | — | 178 | #445 |
| 1928 | — | — | 211 | #414 |
| 1927 | — | — | 204 | #425 |
| 1926 | — | — | 208 | #420 |
| 1925 | — | — | 208 | #415 |
| 1924 | — | — | 246 | #382 |
| 1923 | — | — | 240 | #383 |
| 1922 | — | — | 242 | #388 |
| 1921 | — | — | 277 | #361 |
| 1920 | — | — | 244 | #382 |
| 1919 | — | — | 234 | #379 |
| 1918 | — | — | 257 | #365 |
| 1917 | — | — | 230 | #368 |
| 1916 | — | — | 231 | #354 |
| 1915 | — | — | 226 | #356 |
| 1914 | — | — | 155 | #381 |
| 1913 | — | — | 137 | #354 |
| 1912 | — | — | 136 | #318 |
| 1911 | — | — | 48 | #416 |
| 1910 | — | — | 47 | #377 |
| 1909 | — | — | 39 | #393 |
| 1908 | — | — | 32 | #424 |
| 1907 | — | — | 40 | #343 |
| 1906 | — | — | 32 | #382 |
| 1905 | — | — | 44 | #304 |
| 1904 | — | — | 25 | #421 |
| 1903 | — | — | 39 | #302 |
| 1902 | — | — | 33 | #344 |
| 1901 | — | — | 38 | #281 |
| 1900 | — | — | 37 | #363 |
| 1899 | — | — | 27 | #348 |
| 1898 | — | — | 38 | #310 |
| 1897 | — | — | 32 | #327 |
| 1896 | — | — | 29 | #360 |
| 1895 | — | — | 23 | #402 |
| 1894 | — | — | 24 | #381 |
| 1893 | — | — | 28 | #336 |
| 1892 | — | — | 23 | #399 |
| 1891 | — | — | 19 | #403 |
| 1890 | — | — | 19 | #419 |
| 1889 | — | — | 19 | #423 |
| 1888 | — | — | 26 | #364 |
| 1887 | — | — | 18 | #398 |
| 1886 | — | — | 19 | #409 |
| 1885 | — | — | 10 | #620 |
| 1884 | — | — | 21 | #390 |
| 1883 | — | — | 9 | #663 |
| 1882 | — | — | 9 | #671 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #673 |
| 1880 | — | — | 11 | #587 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).