Hervey
Hervey was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 1,125 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hervey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hervey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,263, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1917, the peak
Hervey peaked in 1917, when 30 boys were given it, #1,249 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #11,263 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,780 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,233 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,294 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,443 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,117 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,794 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,496 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,884 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #9,816 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,094 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,314 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,845 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,709 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,783 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,782 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,624 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,958 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,047 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,834 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,280 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,698 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,748 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,803 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,311 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,186 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,918 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,910 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,174 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,791 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,200 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,976 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,059 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,672 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 14 | #1,982 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #2,475 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,920 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,869 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,194 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,718 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,711 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,832 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,930 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 19 | #1,565 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,079 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,750 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,951 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,256 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,911 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,589 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,606 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,698 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 17 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,609 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,431 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 30 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,249 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,727 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,108 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,344 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 8 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,456 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,495 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,199 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 7 | #932 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 12 | #605 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,151 | 0.04 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1885 | 6 | #874 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,044 | 0.04 |
| 1882 | 6 | #886 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 7 | #776 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hervey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hervey has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hervey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hervey, and how old are they?
An estimated 387 Americans named Hervey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 35 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 544 people named Hervey (3 women and girls, 541 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,685 babies since 1880, Hervey is the most given (67% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hervey
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hervey and names like it
- Compare Hervey and HerveBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHervey peaked in 1917.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hervey since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Hervey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hervey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.