Herve
The boy's name Herve has been in the national records since 1911, with 560 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 180 Herves are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 45.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Herve
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 560
- Estimated living today
- 180
- Median age today
- 45
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 1,509th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1911
How old the living Herves are
born that year still alive today
Of the 560 babies given the name since 1911, about 180 are alive — 32 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1980 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Herves
- Hervé Renard (born 1968)French association football coach
- Hervé Bazin (1911–1996)French writer
- Hervé Villechaize (1943–1993)French actor
- Hervé Le Tellier (born 1957)French writer and linguist
- Hervé Faye (1814–1902)French astronomer
- Hervé Guibert (1955–1991)French writer, photographer and journalist
- Hervé (1825–1892)French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter
- Kouakou Hervé Koffi (born 1996)Burkinabe footballer
People named Herve with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Herve is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Herve is most concentrated in Massachusetts (35.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Herve peaked:
Herve elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Hervé +1 spelling | 139,545 | 16th |
| Belgium boys | Hervé | 212 | 336th |
| France girls | Hervé | 20 | 1,390th |
| England and Wales boys | Herve | 3 | 4,333rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Herve: rank by region
In 2025, Herve was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Hervé | 268 | 22 |
In 2024, Herve was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Herve | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Herve appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (95th) and Province of Antwerp (204th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Herve against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.