Hervey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Breton personal name Aeruiu or Haerviu, literally 'battle-worthy'; also from Irish Gaelic O hAirmheadhaigh
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɝˈveɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hervey is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the Breton personal name Aeruiu or Haerviu, literally 'battle-worthy'; also from Irish Gaelic O hAirmheadhaigh
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Hervey, 2nd Baron Herveyb. 1696GBEnglish courtier, political writer and memoirist (1696-1743)
- Frederick Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristolb. 1730GBBritish bishop (1730-1803)
- Elizabeth Cavendishb. 1758GBnot in their usual namesecond wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
- Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristolb. 1769GBBritish noble
- Harry Herveyb. 1900USAmerican screenwriter
- Irene Herveyb. 1909USAmerican actress (1909-1998)
- Jason Herveyb. 1972USactor, producer
- Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristolb. 1979GBBritish noble (born 1979)
- Jillian Herveyb. 1989USAmerican singer
- Kevin Herveyb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,968 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,600 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #164,002 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 16 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 4 | #10,176 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hervey mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Breton personal name Aeruiu or Haerviu, literally 'battle-worthy'; also from Irish Gaelic O hAirmheadhaigh Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Hervey?
- In the etymology graph, Harvey, Harvie and Haerviu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hervey?
- A machine transcription gives /hɝˈveɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hervey have the most bearers?
- Hervey is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hervey?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herveyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hervey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.