How Many People Are Named Harvey?
people named Harvey are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 6,981 people in the US has this name
Based on 128,792 babies named Harvey in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,294 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the Breton given name Haerviu, which meant "battle worthy", from haer "battle" and viu "worthy". This was the name of a 6th-century Breton hermit who is the patron saint of the blind. Settlers from Brittany introduced it to England after the Norman conquest. During the later Middle Ages it became rare, but it was revived in the 19th century.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Harvey in English. Counting Harvey and these spellings together, about 49,403 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Harvey, 0.9% were girls and 99.2% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Harvey alive today is about 51 years old, and 54% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 19 and 76 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Harvey first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 2,294 babies. In 2025, 1,400 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Harvey never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #51, in 1880, and it was in the top 100 in 60 years between 1880 and 1940. In 2025 it ranked #251.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #251 |
| Best rank | #51 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | 60 (1880 to 1940) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #88 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Harvey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Harvey were born in New York than in any other state: about 3,872 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Harvey was given 1.8 times as often in Delaware, 1.7 times in North Carolina and 1.7 times in South Dakota.
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