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Jervis

Boys' name

Possibly spear, through Jarvis

Jervis has been given to 282 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1924, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Jervis, 2003

1 in 760,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jervis: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly spear, through Jarvis

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jervis means

Jervis belongs to the name family reached through Jervis → Jarvis → Gervase. Its meaning is “spear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jervis is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jarvis and Gervase.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Jervis is pronounced /ˈdʒɑːvɪs/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 282 boys were recorded with the name Jervis between 1921 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,490 in 1955.

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 Jervis?

Jervis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003
1 in 760,000
5 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only
1 in 395,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,991 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jervis 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 2003 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 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jervis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jerviss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jervis was born before 1962 — so the typical Jervis is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
197
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1970s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Jervis 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 1924 (12)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,490
1955

Spellings of Jervis

Jervis is not the most common spelling — Ervin is, with 37.6% against Jervis's 0.27%.

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.

Jervis around the world

Where Jervis 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.

  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jervis 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
#2,490
1955
Peak year
1924
12 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2003
All-time count
282
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jervis

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

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Sibling names for Jervis

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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