Herby
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Herby has been given to 649 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1929, with 18 recorded.
Babies named Herby, 2005
1 in 641,000
Herby over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Herby?
Herby had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 641,000
- 6 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 333,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 444,107 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Herby sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Herby. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Herbys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Herby was born before 1949 — so the typical Herby is around 76 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 19.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 17.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 324
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (129).
Is Herby rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1929 (18)
- Years since peak
- 96
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.2% average annual change
Spellings of Herby
Herby is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 28.7% against Herby's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Herby is used
Across 1910–2025, Herby was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,292,044 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Herby has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Herby around the world
Where Herby ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2012–2012#6,767in 2012
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Herby by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Herby
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Herby
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.