The Hershey surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,182 people carried this name — #5,623 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 47,600 people counted. That is up 4% from 5,951 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Hershey surname

From Hercé in Normandy. Hershey.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hershey» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Hershey in American newspapers,
1904–1924.

Newspaper page from The Thermopolis Independent carrying the name Hershey
The Thermopolis Independent 1924-01-18
Newspaper page from The Hood River Glacier carrying the name Hershey
The Hood River Glacier 1904-07-28
Newspaper page from Albuquerque Evening Citizen carrying the name Hershey
Albuquerque Evening Citizen 1905-08-31

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 835 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Hershey in Australian newspapers,
1920s–1950s.

150 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hershey. The most, 88, date from the 1940s. New South Wales has the most articles, but weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, the name stands out most in Queensland, at 1.6 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 50
Queensland 48
South Australia 13
Tasmania 13
Western Australia 11
Victoria 7
ACT (Canberra) 5
Northern Territory 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Hershey.

Who carried it

People named Hershey,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Milton S. Hershey
    Milton S. Hershey 1857–1945 · entrepreneur
  • Catherine Hershey
    Catherine Hershey 1871–1915
  • Harry B. Hershey
    Harry B. Hershey 1885–1967 · judge
  • John W. Hershey
    John W. Hershey 1898–1967
  • Benjamin Hershey 1813–1893
  • Scott Funk Hershey 1852–1931 · writer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Hershey,
in the records of 2 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States329 records

329 records of the Hershey name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 205
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 65
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 29
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 16
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 11
  • Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 1
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Howard R. Hershey

    Born 1917 in Kansas. Enlisted 1942 at Kansas City; sales agent from Jackson County, Missouri. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1991, buried at Leavenworth National Cemetery, Kansas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Charles Thomas Hershey

    Born 1947; from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1968 in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Mary Hershey

    Arrived at New York in 1869 aboard the Pennsylvania from Liverpool, aged 24. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 329 records for Hershey in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Hershey name in the Netherlands Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths)
  1. A page of the Berlin civil register, 1880
    Example: civil register, 1880
    Death record Charlotte Ann Hershey

    Died 1966 in Rotterdam, aged 22.

    Open Archives, Stadsarchief Rotterdam (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).

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