Boy
Herschel
Herschel is a boy's name, a distinctive, less common pick, that was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now.
YiddishYiddish/German
HebrewMeaning "deer" (from Hebrew "Hertz")
Births by decade
1900s
359
1910s
1,701
1920s
2,258
1930s
1,476
1940s
1,296
1950s
1,013
1960s
591
1970s
376
1980s
402
1990s
262
2000s
144
2010s
147
Peaked in the 1920s · 10,025 total U.S. births since 1900