Masculine dossier · first seen 1908

Hercules

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

Stable Cross-generational persistence

Peak era

2023

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Gen Alpha

1908Peak 20232024

Peak year

2023

Decline from peak

56.7%

2024

All-time

1,300

Hercules has avoided the sharper boom-and-bust cycles of fashion naming. Its strength is not novelty but endurance: steady recognition across eras, families, and classrooms.

Your name peaked in 2023, when 30 boys were named Hercules.

In 2024, only 13 boys were given the name.

Down 56.7% from its peak.

All told, about 1,300 Americans have been named Hercules and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1908.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationGen Alpha

StabilityModerate cultural durability

TrajectoryCross-generational persistence

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