Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Herchell

#22,080 most common boys' name of all time · #58,198 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1916–1931

Rank among boys
#22,080
Rank overall
#58,198 of 105,966
First appeared
1916
Years on the list
6 of 146
All-time
34
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1921 #3,788
Best rank
#3,788 1921
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
1920

Herchell first appears in 1916. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1931 — 5 5 #4,119
1928 — 5 5 #4,509
1922 — 5 5 #4,648
1921 — 7 7 #3,788
1917 — 6 6 #3,871
1916 — 6 6 #3,836