boys:
1.1k births since 1897
#3537 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1897
#6680 (14th percentile)
The name Herschell is the #6,680 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,059 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 13.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,537 (22.8% percentile) for all time with 1,059 births since 1897.
Herschell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (first recorded for boys in 1897). Birth data for Herschell is available in 75 out of the 101 years between 1897 and 1997. 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, Herschell reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #526) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 43 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Herschell".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Herschell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.5% confident that Herschell is pronounced as HER-shuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HER-shehl, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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