Hershell
About 1,847 American babies have been named Hershell since 1899, most of them around 1920. It has not appeared in the national data since 1994. About 630 Hershells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hershell
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,847
- Estimated living today
- 630
- Median age today
- 69
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 1,035th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1899
How old the living Hershells are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,847 babies given the name since 1899, about 630 are alive — 34 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Hershell is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hershell is most concentrated in Kentucky (18.3×), Oklahoma (10.2×), Tennessee (8.1×), Alabama (6.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular boys’ names the year Hershell peaked:
Related names
Hershell against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.