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How popular is “Herschell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Herschell” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Herschell” 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 “Herschell” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Herschell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Herschell” 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
1897 5 0.000014411 5 -100%
1900 5 0.000011105 5 -100%
1901 5 0.000014459 5 -100%
1910 6 0.000010157 6 -100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 -100%
1912 9 0.000009109 9 -100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1914 17 0.000012003 17 -100%
1915 29 0.000015826 29 -100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 -100%
1917 18 0.00000897 18 -100%
1918 22 0.000010133 22 -100%
1919 31 0.00001469 31 -100%
1920 21 0.000009281 21 -100%
1921 25 0.000010709 25 -100%
1922 32 0.000013979 32 -100%
1923 30 0.000013029 30 -100%
1924 33 0.000013856 33 -100%
1925 29 0.000012429 29 -100%
1926 30 0.000013067 30 -100%
1927 25 0.000010779 25 -100%
1928 18 0.000007961 18 -100%
1929 24 0.000010948 24 -100%
1930 21 0.000009445 21 -100%
1931 17 0.000008078 17 -100%
1932 24 0.000011367 24 -100%
1933 15 0.000007502 15 -100%
1934 19 0.000009149 19 -100%
1935 25 0.000011962 25 -100%
1936 14 0.000006739 14 -100%
1937 13 0.000006101 13 -100%
1938 20 0.000009039 20 -100%
1939 18 0.000008169 18 -100%
1940 24 0.000010423 24 -100%
1941 14 0.000005746 14 -100%
1942 16 0.000005857 16 -100%
1943 19 0.000006731 19 -100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 -100%
1945 11 0.000004146 11 -100%
1946 10 0.00000313 10 -100%
1947 16 0.000004442 16 -100%
1948 16 0.000004634 16 -100%
1949 12 0.000003444 12 -100%
1950 10 0.000002854 10 -100%
1951 9 0.000002443 9 -100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 -100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 9 0.000002242 9 -100%
1956 18 0.000004366 18 -100%
1957 7 0.000001666 7 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 6 0.000001443 6 -100%
1960 13 0.00000313 13 -100%
1961 12 0.000002897 12 -100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 16 0.000004116 16 -100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 -100%
1967 10 0.000002946 10 -100%
1968 5 0.00000148 5 -100%
1969 9 0.00000259 9 -100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 -100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 -100%
1975 9 0.000002981 9 -100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 -100%
1980 7 0.000002032 7 -100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 -100%
1983 5 0.000001444 5 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1986 5 0.000001406 5 -100%
1988 6 0.000001624 6 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1997 5 0.000001379 5 -100%

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