Hervey

Hervey is the 10,936th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,781 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,781
Rank: 10,936th
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.93

Where the name comes from

Variant of Harvey.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hervey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 52.8%
Black, not Hispanic 38.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hervey

Jason Hervey (born 1972)actor, producer
Irene Hervey (1909–1998)American actress
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (1696–1743)English courtier, political writer and memoirist

People named Hervey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hervey

Also a first name

Hervey has been given to 1,125 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1917. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.