Hershel Boy Name

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The name Hershel is of Hebrew origin, and means deer. The table below indicates the number of times the name Hershel 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 Hershel**
Use of the Name Hershel for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
8,204	969	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Hershel has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Hershel last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1968, 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 Hershel**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	975	5
1881
1882	887	6
1883	762	7
1884	723	8
1885
1886
1887
1888	864	7
1889	695	9
1890
1891
1892	827	8
1893	796	8
1894
1895	763	9
1896	696	11
1897	753	9
1898	718	10
1899	819	8
1900	714	13
1901	518	15
1902	479	20
1903	539	17
1904	482	20
1905	471	23
1906	446	25
1907	481	24
1908	527	23
1909	564	22
1910	575	25
1911	536	31
1912	502	61
1913	466	85
1914	494	98
1915	466	140
1916	449	154
1917	478	145
1918	438	183
1919	408	205
1920	427	196
1921	420	207
1922	415	209
1923	420	206
1924	413	222
1925	448	179
1926	409	215
1927	426	202
1928	444	182
1929	401	211
1930	410	203
1931	432	172
1932	391	206
1933	437	159
1934	445	162
1935	410	180
1936	467	145
1937	426	177
1938	445	168
1939	421	182
1940	468	153
1941	436	178
1942	466	178
1943	535	138
1944	494	151
1945	533	126
1946	572	126
1947	602	128
1948	558	143
1949	645	113
1950	642	117
1951	629	125
1952	635	122
1953	666	113
1954	699	107
1955	738	97
1956	771	92
1957	788	91
1958	908	69
1959	905	72
1960	965	62
1961	838	84
1962	896	72
1963	914	67
1964	865	78
1965	980	57
1966	962	57
1967
1968	863	71
Totals:		8,204		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Hershel 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 Hershel appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 81 times during the last 125 years.

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