Herschel

boys:

10.6k births since 1880

#1128 (75th percentile)

overall:

10.6k births since 1880

#2569 (67th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Herschel".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
10,619
Peak Births
277
Peak Year
1921
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
40.8%
Current Percentile
2.4%
Peak Rank
#183
Current Rank
#889
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Herschel

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Herschel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Herschel is pronounced as HER-shuhl.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Herschel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Herschel, please vote using the thumbs up button.

HER-shehl (2 syllables)
2 names 1.2k births
HH ER1 SH EH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

HER-chuhl (2 syllables)
3 names 543 births
HH ER1 CH AH0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like HH ER1 SH AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.