Harvey
For 2025 the count puts Harvey at #251 nationwide, and gathering speed. It crested back in 1921, and what is left is the good kind of familiar: heard of, rarely met.
What Harvey carries
Harvey · Celtic
“bitter”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Harvey’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Harvey, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Harvey since 1880
Harvey peaked in 1921 at #87; #251 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Harvey is most common
The state that gives Harvey most often, per boys born there, is Vermont (0.66% in 2025); North Dakota and Minnesota are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Harvey
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Arthur
#87 in 2025 · Celtic
Genevieve
#148 in 2025 · Celtic
Ronan
#247 in 2025 · Celtic
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Kevin
#221 in 2025 · Celtic
Rory
#199 in 2025 · Celtic
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Evan
#153 in 2025 · Celtic
Browse: names starting with H · Celtic names · all names
About Harvey
How common is Harvey today?
For 2025 the count puts Harvey at #251 nationwide, and gathering speed. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What does Harvey mean?
The reference we cite records “bitter”, of Celtic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Harvey?
Arthur, Genevieve and Ronan sit nearest to Harvey on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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