Hershey
Hershey was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 134 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hershey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hershey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,434, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2022, the peak
Hershey peaked in 2022, when 10 boys were given it, #7,969 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,434 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,969 | 5.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,732 | 2.8 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,833 | 4.4 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,926 | 2.8 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,474 | 6.7 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,756 | 3.5 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,063 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,555 | 7.3 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,960 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 8 | #2,745 | 7.2 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,771 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,908 | 4.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,243 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,508 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,919 | 5.4 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,073 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,630 | 6.6 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,919 | 5.9 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,772 | 10.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hershey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hershey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hershey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hershey, and how old are they?
An estimated 45 Americans named Hershey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 338 people named Hershey (158 women and girls, 180 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 42 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Hershey?
Hershey is a less common spelling of Hershy: SSA has recorded 134 Hershey and 1,140 Hershy since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,274 babies since 1880, Hershey is the second most given (11% of them). In 2025 none of their 77 babies recorded by SSA was a Hershey (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hershey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Doyal | 1,149 |
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 Hershey and names like it
- Compare Hershey and HershyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHershey peaked in 2022.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Hershey.
- Names starting with HMost given first.