Hersh is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hersh is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Hersh. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hersh is #3,483 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hersh.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Hersh. Boys named Hersh have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,479 Hersh ranked higher than ever in 1959. By comparison, there have been 102 years in which the first name Hersh has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1990. In general, parents name their sons Hersh only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hersh was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Hersh continues to be a precious jewel: 33 newborns were named Hersh that year, ranking #3,038 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Hersh, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Hersh, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in New Jersey or New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Hersh living in one state or another. (If your name is Hersh and you live outside of New Jersey and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 31,061 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Hersh. So if your name is Hersh, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Hersh already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Hersh is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Hersh and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hersh, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Sun
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hersh
Hersh
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
R
S
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
E
R
S
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hersh sounds like this:
