How Many People Are Named Hercules?
people named Hercules are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 474,701 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,320 babies named Hercules in Social Security records from 1908 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
30 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Latin form of HERAKLES.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Hercules in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Hercules alive today is about 41 years old, and 39% are under 30. Half of them were between 9 and 67 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Hercules first appears in the records in 1908 and was given most often in 2023, to 30 babies. In 2025, 20 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1908 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Hercules has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,290, in 1908. In 2025 it ranked #4,920.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,920 |
| Best rank | #1,290 (1908) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,719 in the 1930s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Hercules alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Hercules were born in South Carolina than in any other state: about 88 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Hercules was given about 50.1 times as often in South Carolina.
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