Hervey
Hervey is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 605th, in 1894.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191730 births
- Best rank
- #605in 1894
- Since 1880
- 1,125people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,125 boys have been named Hervey in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 30 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 30 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1936, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hervey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 29 | |
| 1890s | 29 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 170 | |
| 1920s | 228 | |
| 1930s | 159 | |
| 1940s | 149 | |
| 1950s | 91 | |
| 1960s | 63 | |
| 1970s | 39 | |
| 1980s | 53 | |
| 1990s | 46 | |
| 2000s | 47 | |
| 2010s | 17 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Hervey was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Hervey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bernhardpeak 1916
- Bertonpeak 1924
- Sumnerpeak 1920
- Cloydpeak 1918
- Willampeak 1959
- Buddpeak 1923
- Willispeak 1924
- Llewellynpeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.