Herschel Boy Name

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The name Herschel is of Hebrew origin, and means deer. The table below indicates the number of times the name Herschel has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Herschel**
Use of the Name Herschel for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
8,787	763	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Herschel has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Herschel last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1963, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Herschel**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	587	11
1881	673	8
1882	671	9
1883	663	9
1884	390	21
1885	620	10
1886	409	19
1887	398	18
1888	364	26
1889	423	19
1890	419	19
1891	403	19
1892	399	23
1893	336	28
1894	381	24
1895	402	23
1896	360	29
1897	327	32
1898	310	38
1899	348	27
1900	364	37
1901	281	38
1902	344	33
1903	302	39
1904	421	25
1905	304	44
1906	382	32
1907	343	40
1908	424	32
1909	400	38
1910	377	47
1911	415	48
1912	317	136
1913	352	138
1914	383	154
1915	358	226
1916	354	230
1917	366	232
1918	367	255
1919	380	234
1920	381	244
1921	360	279
1922	384	244
1923	385	239
1924	379	247
1925	415	208
1926	420	208
1927	427	201
1928	412	212
1929	441	179
1930	456	169
1931	426	177
1932	465	153
1933	475	140
1934	492	137
1935	469	145
1936	507	125
1937	501	132
1938	466	155
1939	494	136
1940	503	132
1941	508	135
1942	540	130
1943	617	104
1944	513	140
1945	543	121
1946	545	137
1947	581	136
1948	576	134
1949	611	124
1950	652	114
1951	644	121
1952	706	99
1953	690	107
1954	750	90
1955	668	119
1956	796	87
1957	758	98
1958	759	95
1959	841	81
1960	932	66
1961	908	71
1962	841	82
1963	941	64
Totals:		8,787		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Herschel as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Herschel appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 84 times during the last 125 years.

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