boys:
10.6k births since 1880
#1128 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.6k births since 1880
#2569 (67th percentile)
The name Herschel is the #2,569 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,619 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 66.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,128 (75.4% percentile) for all time with 10,619 births since 1880.
Herschel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Herschel reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 40.8% percentile (ranked #326) with 243 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 329 births per million (ranked 15.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Herschel ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 4.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Herschel".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Herschel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Herschel is pronounced as HER-shuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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