Ersel
Ersel reached its high-water mark in 1916 at number 2,152, and has been recorded 352 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1953. About 30 Ersels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 80.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ersel boys named Ersel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 352
- Estimated living today
- 30
- Median age today
- 80
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 2,152nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
- Girls / boys
- 88 / 264
How old the living Ersels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 352 babies given the name since 1911, about 30 are alive — 10 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1945 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Ersel is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Ersel peaked:
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Ersel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.