Hervey

Where Hervey comes from

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  • Vowel-ended
Hervey through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys, with 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1889
    Hervey Allen born
    American novelist, biographer
  3. 1894
    Peak, #594
    12 babies named Hervey, its best rank.
  4. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1903
    Hervey M. Cleckley born
    American psychiatrist
In the dictionary

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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.