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Hervey

Boys' name

Variant of Harvey

Hervey has been given to 1,125 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1917, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Hervey, 2017

1 in 596,000

Hervey over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hervey: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Harvey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hervey means

Hervey is a variant of Harvey.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hervey is used in English.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hervey → Harvey. The family’s meaning is “iron + blazing”, recorded in English with the source elements hoiarn and viu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Harvey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,125 boys were recorded with the name Hervey between 1880 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 30 in 1917; its best national rank was #605 in 1894.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hervey?

Hervey had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hervey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hervey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Herveys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hervey was born before 1936 — so the typical Hervey is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
356
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (228).

Is Hervey 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 1917 (30)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#605
1894

Spellings of Hervey

Hervey is not the most common spelling — Harvey is, with 70.0% against Hervey's 0.62%.

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 Hervey is used

Across 1910–2025, Hervey was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 270,557 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  2. 2Indiana1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Hervey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hervey around the world

Where Hervey ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1946–1946
    #942
    in 1946

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hervey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#605
1894
Peak year
1917
30 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
1,125
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hervey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HershyHermesHersonHershHeronHerbieHeraldHernanHerculesHeroHeroldHermannHerseyHermonMatveyHerbyHershalHerveHerchelHerlinHermiloHershelHeruHerminio

Sibling names for Hervey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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