Hersel
The boy's name Hersel has been in the national records since 1909, with 197 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 1953. About 20 Hersels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 77.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hersel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 197
- Estimated living today
- 20
- Median age today
- 77
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 2,059th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1909
How old the living Hersels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 197 babies given the name since 1909, about 20 are alive — 11 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1948 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.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Hersel peaked:
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Hersel 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.