Hersh

#2,852 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Hirsh

Hersh has been given to 884 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #2,852 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Hersh, 2025

1 in 75,300

Hersh over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hersh: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Hirsh

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hersh means

Hersh is a alternate transcription of Hirsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hirsh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 884 boys were recorded with the name Hersh between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,777 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,364 in 2020 to #2,852 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,781 in 2015 to #2,852 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Hersh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 75,300; 44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 38,800; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #2,852; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 52,226 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hersh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hersh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hershs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hersh was born before 2010 — so the typical Hersh is around 15 today.

Median birth year: 2010; About 15 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 28.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 76.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 884; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (249).

Is Hersh 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: +36; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +512; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,929; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 2.20×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2024 (44)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,777; 2002

Spellings of Hersh

Hersh is not the most common spelling — Heath is, with 58.1% against Hersh's 1.7%.

Heath58.1%29,523
Hershel20.3%10,329
Herb4.0%2,007
Hershy2.2%1,140
Darsh2.0%1,024
Hersh1.7%884
Hero1.6%806
Arsh1.5%758

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 Hersh is used

Across 1910–2025, Hersh was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 36,696 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 25,000
2New Jersey1 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. Hersh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hersh around the world

Where Hersh 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.

England & Wales
1996–2021
#4,789
in 2021
Canada
2003–2011
#2,664
in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hersh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #2,852
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 512
Best rank ever: #2,777; 2002
Peak year: 2024; 44 that year
First recorded: 1959
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 884
Count in 2025: 44

Names similar to Hersh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Heron Hero Hermes Hershy Herson Darsh Herby Herve Heru Marsh Herald Arsh Herbie Hervey Adarsh Herold Hernan Hercules Harsh Herb Herny Hermann Hersey Hershal

Sibling names for Hersh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Leonor Keren Shoshana Nila Karleigh Kamilah Eloisa Denisse

For a brother

Evans Caesar Gray Arvin Leander Lucio Linus Tobin

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