girls:
822 births since 1897
#4894 (14th percentile)
boys:
125.1k births since 1880
#263 (94th percentile)
overall:
125.9k births since 1880
#587 (92nd percentile)
The name Harvey is the #587 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 125,889 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #263 (94.3% percentile) for all time with 125,067 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,894 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 822 births since 1897.
Harvey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1897 for girls).
The name Harvey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Harvey reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 84.5% percentile (ranked #84) with 1,997 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 2,917 births per million (ranked 76.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Harvey ranks #310 for boys (66.0% percentile) with 558 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Harvey reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #579) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Harvey ranks #926 for girls (2.2% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 61.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Harvey".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Harvey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Harvey is pronounced as HAHR-vee, which has 2 syllables.
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