Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Harvey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Harvey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Harvey” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Harvey” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Harvey” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Harvey” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Harvey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Harvey” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 344 0.001707332 344 -100%
1881 282 0.001463506 282 -100%
1882 300 0.0013542 300 -100%
1883 318 0.001465803 318 -100%
1884 358 0.001470461 358 -100%
1885 304 0.001262175 304 -100%
1886 310 0.001214182 310 -100%
1887 262 0.001059048 262 -100%
1888 334 0.001115289 334 -100%
1889 311 0.001076326 311 -100%
1890 296 0.00098208 296 -100%
1891 274 0.000955793 274 -100%
1892 298 0.000891218 298 -100%
1893 284 0.000873247 284 -100%
1894 293 0.000865098 293 -100%
1895 282 0.000803373 282 -100%
1896 292 0.00081682 292 -100%
1897 273 0.000786841 5 268 -96%
1898 284 0.000744518 284 -100%
1899 251 0.000739902 251 -100%
1900 322 0.000715146 322 -100%
1901 253 0.000731611 253 -100%
1902 264 0.000682642 264 -100%
1903 293 0.000768625 293 -100%
1904 300 0.000743522 300 -100%
1905 286 0.000674652 286 -100%
1906 351 0.00081923 351 -100%
1907 335 0.000719826 335 -100%
1908 339 0.00069375 339 -100%
1909 361 0.000706148 361 -100%
1910 382 0.000646678 382 -100%
1911 446 0.000692248 446 -100%
1912 882 0.000892657 7 875 -98%
1913 1033 0.000908443 5 1028 -99%
1914 1257 0.000887496 7 1250 -99%
1915 1621 0.00088462 8 1613 -99%
1916 1779 0.000919657 16 1763 -98%
1917 1821 0.000907437 13 1808 -99%
1918 2131 0.000981525 20 2111 -98%
1919 2046 0.000969556 18 2028 -98%
1920 2186 0.000966127 21 2165 -98%
1921 2294 0.000982649 7 2287 -99%
1922 2223 0.0009711 16 2207 -99%
1923 2131 0.000925523 16 2115 -98%
1924 2265 0.000951037 23 2242 -98%
1925 2208 0.000946298 18 2190 -98%
1926 2158 0.000939934 30 2128 -97%
1927 2222 0.000958024 21 2201 -98%
1928 2203 0.000974374 16 2187 -99%
1929 2076 0.000947011 13 2063 -99%
1930 2072 0.000931953 10 2062 -99%
1931 1992 0.000946593 14 1978 -99%
1932 2047 0.000969549 17 2030 -98%
1933 1910 0.000955264 14 1896 -99%
1934 1952 0.0009399 18 1934 -98%
1935 1968 0.000941672 10 1958 -99%
1936 1982 0.000953995 12 1970 -99%
1937 2095 0.000983259 14 2081 -99%
1938 2068 0.000934658 17 2051 -98%
1939 1963 0.000890879 17 1946 -98%
1940 2102 0.000912847 14 2088 -99%
1941 2028 0.000832367 11 2017 -99%
1942 2292 0.000839002 8 2284 -99%
1943 2257 0.000799629 13 2244 -99%
1944 1964 0.00073009 13 1951 -99%
1945 1989 0.000749743 15 1974 -98%
1946 2068 0.000647199 10 2058 -99%
1947 2217 0.000615436 10 2207 -99%
1948 2013 0.000583053 9 2004 -99%
1949 1941 0.000556994 5 1936 -99%
1950 1823 0.000520358 12 1811 -99%
1951 1651 0.000448186 9 1642 -99%
1952 1601 0.000421537 7 1594 -99%
1953 1542 0.000400141 7 1535 -99%
1954 1467 0.000368527 7 1460 -99%
1955 1298 0.000323281 9 1289 -99%
1956 1379 0.000334462 1379 -100%
1957 1283 0.00030532 5 1278 -99%
1958 1186 0.000286896 8 1178 -99%
1959 1093 0.000262867 11 1082 -98%
1960 1012 0.000243631 11 1001 -98%
1961 967 0.000233445 9 958 -98%
1962 868 0.000215098 9 859 -98%
1963 887 0.000224092 887 -100%
1964 871 0.000224045 6 865 -99%
1965 722 0.000199148 722 -100%
1966 666 0.000191619 5 661 -98%
1967 623 0.000183511 623 -100%
1968 635 0.000187958 5 630 -98%
1969 584 0.000168042 7 577 -98%
1970 542 0.000150284 542 -100%
1971 495 0.000144216 495 -100%
1972 450 0.000143176 7 443 -97%
1973 401 0.000132918 401 -100%
1974 425 0.000139803 425 -100%
1975 339 0.000112274 339 -100%
1976 327 0.000107768 327 -100%
1977 324 0.000101999 5 319 -97%
1978 320 0.000100823 320 -100%
1979 298 0.00008957 298 -100%
1980 284 0.00008245 284 -100%
1981 285 0.000082385 285 -100%
1982 254 0.000072407 254 -100%
1983 259 0.000074783 259 -100%
1984 206 0.000059047 206 -100%
1985 233 0.000065282 233 -100%
1986 189 0.000053133 189 -100%
1987 216 0.000059907 216 -100%
1988 254 0.000068741 254 -100%
1989 232 0.000060347 232 -100%
1990 214 0.000054143 214 -100%
1991 191 0.000049034 191 -100%
1992 177 0.000046078 177 -100%
1993 180 0.000047742 180 -100%
1994 170 0.000045728 170 -100%
1995 145 0.000039594 145 -100%
1996 142 0.000038934 142 -100%
1997 153 0.000042198 153 -100%
1998 139 0.00003779 139 -100%
1999 143 0.000038713 143 -100%
2000 162 0.000042858 162 -100%
2001 134 0.000035796 134 -100%
2002 138 0.000036915 138 -100%
2003 139 0.000036557 139 -100%
2004 153 0.000040043 153 -100%
2005 162 0.000042134 162 -100%
2006 143 0.000036146 143 -100%
2007 151 0.000037772 151 -100%
2008 145 0.000036889 145 -100%
2009 181 0.00004738 181 -100%
2010 189 0.00005114 189 -100%
2011 250 0.000068347 250 -100%
2012 288 0.000078745 288 -100%
2013 411 0.000112737 5 406 -98%
2014 583 0.000157297 5 578 -98%
2015 705 0.000190494 8 697 -98%
2016 791 0.000215608 13 778 -97%
2017 875 0.000244673 19 856 -96%
2018 693 0.000197105 10 683 -97%
2019 785 0.000226164 12 773 -97%
2020 730 0.000218525 16 714 -96%
2021 753 0.000222258 20 733 -95%
2022 812 0.000240014 18 794 -96%
2023 1054 0.000318314 26 1028 -95%
2024 1467 0.000440739 26 1441 -96%

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