Name meaning & stats
Hershel
Hershel (Yiddish origin). 5,091 US babies since 1940, peak 1942.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
Yiddish
In US birth records
Peak year: 1942
5,091 US babies were named Hershel between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Hershel (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 82% of the family
- Hershel 82%
- Hershell 14%
- Hershal 4%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1942)