Hershell
Recorded for boysSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
1,847
peak year 1920
More common than
92%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1920
- 45 births
- Best rank
- #871
- in 1903
- First recorded
- 1899
- #1,118 that year
- Last recorded
- 1994
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1940
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 84 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 192045#1,041Peak
- 193844#954
- 193343#973
- 194343#1,027
- 192242#1,093
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #871 in 1903 · peak births 45 in 1920
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 Hershell 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.