as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, which is derived from a Breton personal name composed of haer ‘battle’ + vy ‘worthy’. It was introduced to Britain by Bretons who settled in East Anglia and elsewhere in the wake of the Norman Conquest.
| 586th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 80,633
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 103,762
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Harvey per capita
- 1921
- marked the height of its popularity
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