Harve

Last seen for boys in 1968 at #4,136

Peak · boys
1883 · 21 births
Debut · boys
17 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
554
since 1880

Harve over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Harve has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201897peak #371, 1883boys
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1968#4,1365
1967#3,9665
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1963#3,6466
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1961#3,6526
1960#4,0385
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1957#3,2577
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1951#3,7145
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1949#3,2986
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1947#2,8628
1946#3,5255
1945#2,5748
1944#2,19511
1943#2,40510
1942#2,5239
1941#2,6568
1940#3,4595
1939#2,8297
1938#2,6468
1937#2,33210
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1935#2,24611
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1930#2,60910
1929#2,45211
1928#3,6976
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1926#2,9049
1925#2,31313
1924#2,64111
1923#3,1758
1922#2,14315
1921#2,50212
1920#2,33613
1919#3,1158
1918#2,26013
1917#1,98615
1916#2,38911
1915#2,8298
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1913#2,4966
1912#2,0457
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1903#9107
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1894#7878
1893#9076
1892#59712
1891#52412
1890#6679
1889#62810
1888#44218
1887#54411
1886#8456
1885#7008
1884#48815
1883#37121
1882#37722
1881#48713
1880#42517
First appearance
1880

In the first year the SSA published name data, Harve was already there! It came in at #425, and was given to 17 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1895–1896, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Harve is popular in 1897

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Harve
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1968
  • Biggest jump: 301 spots in 1887 (#845 → #544)
  • Biggest drop: 537 spots in 1898 (#584 → #1,121)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1880
  • Peaked 1883 at #371 (21 births)
  • Births halved by 1885, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1880–1894
Share of babies · boys
1 in 4,982
  • Highest: 1 in 4,982 boys born in 1883 were named Harve (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 347,595 boys born in 1968 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1880s
  • 25.5% of all boys named Harve (141) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s141#371 (1883)#531
1890s65#524 (1891)#741
1900s13#910 (1903)#1,036
1910s68#1,986 (1917)#2,446
1920s98#2,143 (1922)#2,685
1930s52#2,246 (1935)#2,671
1940s70#2,195 (1944)#2,833
1950s20#2,964 (1955)#3,312
1960s27#3,646 (1963)#3,888

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Harve in 1897

boys
#584
13 births · 1 in 8,674 boys

Top boys' names in 1897

  1. #1John7,550
  2. #2William7,198
  3. #3James5,113
  4. #4George4,078
  5. #5Charles3,341
  6. #6Joseph2,827
  7. #7Frank2,726
  8. #8Robert2,701
  9. #9Edward2,121
  10. #10Henry1,994
  11. #584Harve13
More about 1897

boys

112,757 boys got a published name in 1897; 1 in 8,674 of them was named Harve, which outranked 52.5% of the 1,229 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Harve
  1. #556Truman14
  2. #556Wash14
  3. #556Williams14
  4. #584Harve13
  5. #584Antone13
  6. #584Bailey13
  7. #584Bertram13
  8. #615Abel12
  9. #615Alois12
  10. #615Alphonso12

Tied with 30 names at #584; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1896
Risers
  1. ↑ 509Roswell#982 → #473
  2. ↑ 487Theron#982 → #495
  3. ↑ 486Alois#1,101 → #615
  4. ↑ 486Rush#1,101 → #615
  5. ↑ 467Helmer#982 → #515
Fallers
  1. ↓ 480Benton#462 → #942
  2. ↓ 465Louise#592 → #1,057
  3. ↓ 465Bradford#592 → #1,057
  4. ↓ 461Allison#481 → #942
  5. ↓ 424Hilliard#518 → #942

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1897 →