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The first name 
Hershel

Hershel is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

When two boys called Hershel meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hershel 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 Hershel. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hershel is #2,666 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 Hershel.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Hershel

Hershel -
at home in half of America

The odds that a man or boy named Hershel lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Hershel in 23 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Hershel live in Arkansas – here, one in 2,588 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 23,557 will turn around if you call his first name Hershel.

Hershel has 7 letters 
and begins with an H

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 seven letters, the name Hershel has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Hershel

If your name is Hershel 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...

This is how you spell the name Hershel

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hershel, you can simply say:

Hat

Elephant

Rocket

Sun

Hat

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Hershel is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Hershel in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Hershel

Hershel

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Hershel

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Hershel is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

H
E
R
S
H
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Hershel

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
E
L

Beeping like crazy...

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. Hershel sounds like this: