Hersz
A Hebrew name meaning "deer" or "stag". Just 53 men in Poland carry it, and records show no boys given it since 2000, so most Poles have never met a Hersz.
Hersz Pronunciation
Hersz is pronounced KHERSH (/xɛrʂ/).
What Hersz means
Where Hersz comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hersz reached Polish town registers through Yiddish, where Hirsch names the stag. A Hebrew thread runs underneath. Jewish families paired Hersz with Tzvi, the Hebrew word for deer, so one boy could answer to Hersz among neighbours and to Tzvi at prayer.
The spelling moved. In Polish records the name appears as Hersz and also as Hirsz, and the affectionate Herszel stayed with many men long past childhood. On a school register those forms might sit a few lines apart.
The meaning held to the animal the whole time, the deer that Naphtali was likened to in Genesis 49. Hersz still means stag.
How many people are named Hersz
1 in 402758 men in Poland is named Hersz. 53 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5143 among male names.
Hersz as a middle name
Hersz is a first name for 53 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, a 79/21 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2511th, between Heikki (14) and Hesham (14).
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#2509 Harish14
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#2510 Heikki14
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#2511 Hersz14
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#2512 Hesham14
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#2513 Hossein14