Harve

Where Harve comes from

Harve hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #425 among boys — 17 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #371
    21 babies named Harve — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #700.
  4. 1930
    Harve Bennett born
    American television and film producer
  5. 1933
    Harve Presnell born
    American actor and singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Harve Presnell · American actor and singer, 1933–2009
  • Harve Bennett · American television and film producer, 1930–2015
  • Harve Tibbott · American politician, 1885–1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.