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How popular is “Hershell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Hershell” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Hershell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Hershell” 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
1899 5 0.000014739 5 -100%
1902 5 0.000012929 5 -100%
1903 8 0.000020986 8 -100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 -100%
1908 5 0.000010232 5 -100%
1909 5 0.00000978 5 -100%
1910 5 0.000008464 5 -100%
1911 10 0.000015521 10 -100%
1912 10 0.000010121 10 -100%
1913 15 0.000013191 15 -100%
1914 13 0.000009179 13 -100%
1915 18 0.000009823 18 -100%
1916 24 0.000012407 24 -100%
1917 35 0.000017441 35 -100%
1918 20 0.000009212 20 -100%
1919 35 0.000016586 35 -100%
1920 45 0.000019888 45 -100%
1921 40 0.000017134 40 -100%
1922 42 0.000018347 42 -100%
1923 27 0.000011726 27 -100%
1924 40 0.000016795 40 -100%
1925 41 0.000017572 41 -100%
1926 33 0.000014373 33 -100%
1927 40 0.000017246 40 -100%
1928 37 0.000016365 37 -100%
1929 35 0.000015966 35 -100%
1930 28 0.000012594 28 -100%
1931 29 0.000013781 29 -100%
1932 32 0.000015157 32 -100%
1933 43 0.000021506 43 -100%
1934 32 0.000015408 32 -100%
1935 41 0.000019618 41 -100%
1936 40 0.000019253 40 -100%
1937 37 0.000017365 37 -100%
1938 44 0.000019886 44 -100%
1939 39 0.0000177 39 -100%
1940 38 0.000016502 38 -100%
1941 36 0.000014776 36 -100%
1942 36 0.000013178 36 -100%
1943 43 0.000015234 43 -100%
1944 29 0.00001078 29 -100%
1945 28 0.000010554 28 -100%
1946 24 0.000007511 24 -100%
1947 38 0.000010549 38 -100%
1948 29 0.0000084 29 -100%
1949 29 0.000008322 29 -100%
1950 25 0.000007136 25 -100%
1951 25 0.000006787 25 -100%
1952 26 0.000006846 26 -100%
1953 29 0.000007525 29 -100%
1954 28 0.000007034 28 -100%
1955 25 0.000006227 25 -100%
1956 29 0.000007034 29 -100%
1957 35 0.000008329 35 -100%
1958 19 0.000004596 19 -100%
1959 24 0.000005772 24 -100%
1960 25 0.000006019 25 -100%
1961 15 0.000003621 15 -100%
1962 23 0.0000057 23 -100%
1963 8 0.000002021 8 -100%
1964 9 0.000002315 9 -100%
1965 8 0.000002207 8 -100%
1966 17 0.000004891 17 -100%
1967 13 0.000003829 13 -100%
1968 9 0.000002664 9 -100%
1969 15 0.000004316 15 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 -100%
1971 17 0.000004953 17 -100%
1972 15 0.000004773 15 -100%
1973 10 0.000003315 10 -100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 -100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 -100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 7 0.000001995 7 -100%
1983 9 0.000002599 9 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 -100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 -100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 -100%

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