Given name & surname
Hirsh
“resembling a deer”
Hirsh is a variant of Hershel. One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling a deer.”
Original Yiddishהירש
Meaning & origin
What it means
Hirsh is a variant of Hershel. One Hebrew interpretation is “resembling a deer.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Yiddish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hirsh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13
- 13 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,716 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,716 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 116 as a first name in 2020; 2,068 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hirsh’s family of names
Hirsh has an affectionate form in Hershel. Hirsh has a feminine form in Herschelle. Hirsh has a related form in Hirsch.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Hirsh
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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