Herschel
Recorded for boysSilent Generation2025 rank
#3,399
up +1,547 places
2025 births
34
up +14 births
All-time births
10,674
0% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1921
- 277 births
- Best rank
- #281
- in 1901
- First recorded
- 1880
- #587 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1940
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1921277#361Peak
- 1918257#365
- 1924246#382
- 1920244#382
- 1922242#388
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #281 in 1901 · peak births 277 in 1921
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Herschel has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.