boys:
1.8k births since 1899
#2908 (37th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1899
#5909 (24th percentile)
The name Hershell is the #5,909 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,847 recorded births since 1899. This represents the 23.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,908 (36.6% percentile) for all time with 1,847 births since 1899.
Hershell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1899 (first recorded for boys in 1899). Birth data for Hershell is available in 84 out of the 96 years between 1899 and 1994. 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, Hershell reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #495) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hershell".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hershell is pronounced as HER-shuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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