Herald
Recorded 1900–2022 · United States
Herald was most popular in 1926, when 38 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,316 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 990 people named Herald.
Herald over time
How old is the name Herald?
Herald first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1900, which makes it about 125 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 69 of the 126 years since.
How many people are named Herald?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 990 American births named Herald between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 244 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Herald in 2025?
Herald was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Herald getting more or less popular?
Herald is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Herald a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Herald is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 990 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Herald?
Roughly 244 Americans named Herald are alive today — 25% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 69 years old, and half are between 61 and 80.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org