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How popular is “Herchel” in the USA?

Number of people named “Herchel” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Herchel” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Herchel” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Herchel” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Herchel” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Herchel” by birth year

This chart shows how “Herchel” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1907 5 0.000010744 5 -100%
1912 7 0.000007085 7 -100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1915 11 0.000006003 11 -100%
1916 9 0.000004653 9 -100%
1917 15 0.000007475 15 -100%
1918 19 0.000008751 19 -100%
1919 9 0.000004265 9 -100%
1920 14 0.000006187 14 -100%
1921 14 0.000005997 14 -100%
1922 15 0.000006553 15 -100%
1923 16 0.000006949 16 -100%
1924 8 0.000003359 8 -100%
1925 14 0.000006 14 -100%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 9 0.00000388 9 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 -100%
1929 7 0.000003193 7 -100%
1930 9 0.000004048 9 -100%
1931 10 0.000004752 10 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1933 12 0.000006002 12 -100%
1934 14 0.000006741 14 -100%
1935 5 0.000002392 5 -100%
1936 12 0.000005776 12 -100%
1937 8 0.000003755 8 -100%
1938 10 0.00000452 10 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 8 0.000003474 8 -100%
1941 7 0.000002873 7 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1943 15 0.000005314 15 -100%
1944 9 0.000003346 9 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 -100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1950 7 0.000001998 7 -100%
1952 6 0.00000158 6 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 9 0.000002183 9 -100%
1957 6 0.000001428 6 -100%
1960 6 0.000001444 6 -100%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 -100%
1964 7 0.000001801 7 -100%
1967 6 0.000001767 6 -100%
1973 6 0.000001989 6 -100%
1987 8 0.000002219 8 -100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 -100%

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