Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Hersh” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hersh” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hersh” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hersh” 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
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1974 5 0.000001645 5 -100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1985 6 0.000001681 6 -100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 -100%
1988 15 0.000004059 15 -100%
1989 9 0.000002341 9 -100%
1991 14 0.000003594 14 -100%
1992 5 0.000001302 5 -100%
1993 19 0.000005039 19 -100%
1994 15 0.000004035 15 -100%
1995 11 0.000003004 11 -100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 -100%
1997 11 0.000003034 11 -100%
1998 22 0.000005981 22 -100%
1999 16 0.000004332 16 -100%
2000 12 0.000003175 12 -100%
2001 11 0.000002939 11 -100%
2002 34 0.000009095 34 -100%
2003 16 0.000004208 16 -100%
2004 25 0.000006543 25 -100%
2005 22 0.000005722 22 -100%
2006 24 0.000006066 24 -100%
2007 35 0.000008755 35 -100%
2008 29 0.000007378 29 -100%
2009 19 0.000004974 19 -100%
2010 22 0.000005953 22 -100%
2011 29 0.000007928 29 -100%
2012 20 0.000005468 20 -100%
2013 23 0.000006309 23 -100%
2014 37 0.000009983 37 -100%
2015 20 0.000005404 20 -100%
2016 24 0.000006542 24 -100%
2017 19 0.000005313 19 -100%
2018 20 0.000005688 20 -100%
2019 35 0.000010084 35 -100%
2020 33 0.000009879 33 -100%
2021 29 0.00000856 29 -100%
2022 35 0.000010345 35 -100%
2023 29 0.000008758 29 -100%
2024 44 0.000013219 44 -100%

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