Masculine dossier · first seen 1913

Herbie

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Herbie
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1959

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Boomer

1913Peak 19592024

Peak year

1959

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,094

Herbie has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Boomer naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1959, when 45 boys were named Herbie.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,094 Americans have been named Herbie and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1913.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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