About the name Hershel
Hershel belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Hershel first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #391 in 1932, and in 2024 47 babies received the name — 10,279 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.