Hersh
Hersh was given to 44 boys in 2025, #2,852 among boys’ names; 884 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hersh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hersh?
#2,852 among boys’ names, 2025
Hersh rose from #4,781 in 2015 to #2,852 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 25.8 per million.
44 babies in 2024, the peak
Hersh peaked in 2024, when 44 boys were given it, #2,888 among boys’ names. The 44 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44 | #2,852 | 25.8 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,888 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,748 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 35 | #3,367 | 20.0 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,763 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,364 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,287 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,807 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,997 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,238 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,781 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,057 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,227 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,760 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,634 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,415 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,997 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 29 | #3,679 | 14.2 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,208 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,037 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,102 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,673 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,894 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 34 | #2,777 | 17.5 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,173 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,692 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,425 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,425 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,407 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,722 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,276 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,168 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 19 | #3,419 | 9.7 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,925 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,080 | 6.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,326 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,413 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,367 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,066 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,242 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,798 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,527 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,478 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,130 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hersh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hersh has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hersh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hersh, and how old are they?
An estimated 866 Americans named Hersh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 752 people named Hersh (5 women and girls, 747 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 665 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Hersh rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hersh born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 33 | #495 | 8.7× |
Where Hersh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hersh is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 8.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hersh with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hersh
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hersh and names like it
- Compare Hersh and BinyominBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHersh peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hersh since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hersh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hersh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.