boys:
990 births since 1900
#3602 (21st percentile)
overall:
990 births since 1900
#6749 (13th percentile)
The name Herald is the #6,749 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 990 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 12.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,602 (21.4% percentile) for all time with 990 births since 1900.
Herald first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for boys in 1900). Birth data for Herald is available in 69 out of the 123 years between 1900 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Herald reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #518) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Herald".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Herald. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Herald is pronounced as HEH-ruhld, which has 2 syllables.
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