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.

Herschal

#23,794 most common boys' name of all time · #62,785 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1920–1935

Rank among boys
#23,794
Rank overall
#62,785 of 105,966
First appeared
1920
Years on the list
5 of 146
All-time
26
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1928 #4,073
Best rank
#4,047 1935
Girls Boys peak 6/yr
1920

Herschal first appears in 1920. 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
1935 — 5 5 #4,047
1928 — 6 6 #4,073
1926 — 5 5 #4,691
1921 — 5 5 #4,850
1920 — 5 5 #4,899