Harvel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Harvel has been given to 302 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1940, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Harvel, 1959
1 in 594,000
Harvel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Harvel?
Harvel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1959, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1959
- 1 in 594,000
- 7 of 4,157,642 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 305,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1959
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 411,695 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Harvel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1959 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 411,695 children born in 1959 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harvel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Harvels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Harvel was born before 1933 — so the typical Harvel is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 28.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 45.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 41
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (87).
Is Harvel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1940 (13)
- Years since peak
- 85
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.4% average annual change
Spellings of Harvel
Harvel is not the most common spelling — Harvey is, with 39.4% against Harvel's 0.09%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Harvel is used
Across 1910–2025, Harvel was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 299,779 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Harvel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Harvel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Harvel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Harvel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.