Meaning not yet researched.
Hershel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #391 in 1932.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #391 in 1932; #2,692 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hershel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,692 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1932, at #391.
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Hershel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #391 in 1932 · most boys in one year: 226 (1924).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Hershel, making it the 2,692nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 7 places from #2,685 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 49 boys named Hershel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #391, reached in 1932. The most boys given the name in a single year was 226, in 1924. For comparison, it was #2,539 in 2015 and #660 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hershel in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 10,334 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,032 babies named Hershel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 411 US boys were named Hershel; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hershel ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #535 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Hershell, Hershal and Hershall 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: Hershell (1,847), Hershal (647), Hershall (195).
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 Hershel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 30 | #535 | #473 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,692 |
| 2024 | — | — | 49 | #2,685 |
| 2023 | — | — | 52 | #2,556 |
| 2022 | — | — | 47 | #2,768 |
| 2021 | — | — | 32 | #3,531 |
| 2020 | — | — | 38 | #3,042 |
| 2019 | — | — | 31 | #3,594 |
| 2018 | — | — | 36 | #3,195 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,090 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,948 |
| 2015 | — | — | 49 | #2,539 |
| 2014 | — | — | 41 | #2,861 |
| 2013 | — | — | 39 | #2,911 |
| 2012 | — | — | 35 | #3,194 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,602 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,568 |
| 2009 | — | — | 30 | #3,589 |
| 2008 | — | — | 44 | #2,763 |
| 2007 | — | — | 42 | #2,836 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,107 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,277 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,663 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,954 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,042 |
| 2001 | — | — | 23 | #3,661 |
| 2000 | — | — | 32 | #2,831 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,431 |
| 1998 | — | — | 22 | #3,430 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,281 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,964 |
| 1995 | — | — | 28 | #2,646 |
| 1994 | — | — | 24 | #2,981 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,813 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,872 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,032 |
| 1990 | — | — | 25 | #2,650 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,567 |
| 1988 | — | — | 33 | #1,964 |
| 1987 | — | — | 37 | #1,769 |
| 1986 | — | — | 23 | #2,383 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,887 |
| 1984 | — | — | 32 | #1,776 |
| 1983 | — | — | 36 | #1,640 |
| 1982 | — | — | 31 | #1,830 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,967 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,879 |
| 1979 | — | — | 40 | #1,501 |
| 1978 | — | — | 30 | #1,769 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,623 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,436 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,389 |
| 1974 | — | — | 51 | #1,158 |
| 1973 | — | — | 45 | #1,236 |
| 1972 | — | — | 40 | #1,334 |
| 1971 | — | — | 46 | #1,220 |
| 1970 | — | — | 46 | #1,230 |
| 1969 | — | — | 58 | #1,014 |
| 1968 | — | — | 70 | #868 |
| 1967 | — | — | 46 | #1,094 |
| 1966 | — | — | 58 | #956 |
| 1965 | — | — | 57 | #980 |
| 1964 | — | — | 78 | #863 |
| 1963 | — | — | 67 | #916 |
| 1962 | — | — | 71 | #906 |
| 1961 | — | — | 85 | #835 |
| 1960 | — | — | 62 | #969 |
| 1959 | — | — | 73 | #901 |
| 1958 | — | — | 69 | #910 |
| 1957 | — | — | 91 | #786 |
| 1956 | — | — | 91 | #781 |
| 1955 | — | — | 99 | #735 |
| 1954 | — | — | 107 | #701 |
| 1953 | — | — | 113 | #674 |
| 1952 | — | — | 125 | #629 |
| 1951 | — | — | 125 | #630 |
| 1950 | — | — | 113 | #660 |
| 1949 | — | — | 113 | #643 |
| 1948 | — | — | 144 | #559 |
| 1947 | — | — | 127 | #603 |
| 1946 | — | — | 131 | #560 |
| 1945 | — | — | 127 | #530 |
| 1944 | — | — | 150 | #497 |
| 1943 | — | — | 138 | #535 |
| 1942 | — | — | 180 | #463 |
| 1941 | — | — | 176 | #440 |
| 1940 | — | — | 154 | #466 |
| 1939 | — | — | 183 | #420 |
| 1938 | — | — | 167 | #448 |
| 1937 | — | — | 177 | #427 |
| 1936 | — | — | 146 | #467 |
| 1935 | — | — | 180 | #410 |
| 1934 | — | — | 161 | #445 |
| 1933 | — | — | 163 | #432 |
| 1932 | — | — | 207 | #391 |
| 1931 | — | — | 172 | #433 |
| 1930 | — | — | 200 | #416 |
| 1929 | — | — | 211 | #401 |
| 1928 | — | — | 181 | #448 |
| 1927 | — | — | 202 | #427 |
| 1926 | — | — | 215 | #408 |
| 1925 | — | — | 180 | #448 |
| 1924 | — | — | 226 | #409 |
| 1923 | — | — | 208 | #418 |
| 1922 | — | — | 202 | #423 |
| 1921 | — | — | 213 | #416 |
| 1920 | — | — | 194 | #432 |
| 1919 | — | — | 206 | #406 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,144 | 182 | #440 |
| 1917 | — | — | 146 | #475 |
| 1916 | — | — | 153 | #458 |
| 1915 | — | — | 141 | #463 |
| 1914 | — | — | 98 | #495 |
| 1913 | — | — | 85 | #467 |
| 1912 | — | — | 61 | #503 |
| 1911 | — | — | 31 | #538 |
| 1910 | — | — | 25 | #574 |
| 1909 | — | — | 22 | #564 |
| 1908 | — | — | 23 | #528 |
| 1907 | — | — | 24 | #480 |
| 1906 | — | — | 25 | #446 |
| 1905 | — | — | 23 | #471 |
| 1904 | — | — | 20 | #482 |
| 1903 | — | — | 17 | #539 |
| 1902 | — | — | 20 | #479 |
| 1901 | — | — | 15 | #518 |
| 1900 | — | — | 13 | #712 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #819 |
| 1898 | — | — | 10 | #718 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #753 |
| 1896 | — | — | 11 | #696 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #762 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,158 |
| 1893 | — | — | 8 | #795 |
| 1892 | — | — | 8 | #827 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,068 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #695 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #864 |
| 1885 | — | — | 5 | #1,009 |
| 1884 | — | — | 8 | #723 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #762 |
| 1882 | — | — | 6 | #886 |
| 1880 | — | — | 5 | #976 |
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).