Hershy
#1,976 for boys in 2025, 77 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 77 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,140since 1978
Hershy over time
Rank among boys' names. Hershy has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,976 | 77 |
| 2024 | #2,057 | 73 |
| 2023 | #2,113 | 69 |
| 2022 | #2,039 | 74 |
| 2021 | #3,121 | 38 |
| 2020 | #2,467 | 52 |
| 2019 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | #2,325 | 57 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 48 |
| 2016 | #2,783 | 43 |
| 2015 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 2014 | #3,038 | 37 |
| 2013 | #2,848 | 40 |
| 2012 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #3,164 | 35 |
| 2010 | #3,072 | 37 |
| 2009 | #3,105 | 37 |
| 2008 | #3,165 | 36 |
| 2007 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #4,675 | 19 |
| 2005 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #4,129 | 21 |
| 2003 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #3,974 | 20 |
| 2000 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #4,668 | 13 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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| 1983 | #4,141 | 9 |
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| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Hershy! It came in at #5,059, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1982, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Hershy is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#989 · 1 in 18,376
Best ever in a state: #270 in New York, 2025.
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| New York | #989 | 6 | 1 in 18,376 |
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See more about Hershy
- 81 spots since 2024 (#2,057 → #1,976)
- 491 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #1,976)
- 1,046 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #1,976)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2025 at #1,976 (77 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,183 boys born in 2025 were named Hershy (0.00%)
- 36.8% of all boys named Hershy (419) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,059 |
| 1980s | 14 | #4,141 (1983) | #6,023 |
| 1990s | 86 | #3,597 (1998) | #5,998 |
| 2000s | 232 | #3,105 (2009) | #4,049 |
| 2010s | 419 | #2,325 (2018) | #2,879 |
| 2020s | 383 | #1,976 (2025) | #2,296 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Hershy in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 273,640 of them was named Hershy, which outranked 25.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).