Hervey

Where Hervey comes from

Hervey hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Hervey Allen born
    American novelist, biographer
  3. 1894
    Peak, #594
    12 babies named Hervey — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1903
    Hervey M. Cleckley born
    American psychiatrist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hervey Allen · American novelist, biographer, 1889–1949
  • Hervey M. Cleckley · American psychiatrist, 1903–1984
  • Hervey le Breton · Bishop of Bangor; Bishop of Ely, died 1131
  • Hervey Machen · American politician, 1916–1994
  • Hervey Chittenden Calkin · American politician, 1828–1913

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.