Harvey

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Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname derived from a Breton personal name composed of the elements haer = 'battle' and vy = 'worthy' [1]

Related Names

Harvey
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Harwey
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Norwegian

Cognates

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Harvey
Genitive: Harveys
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Harvey
Genitive: Harveyn
Partitive: Harveyta
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Harvey
Genitive: Harveys
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Harvey
Genitive: Harveys

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 17 people were named Harvey (percentage of first or only given name: 24 %) [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
74 143 0 4 74 139
Denmark Denmark[6]
75
n.a.
0
n.a.
75
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
36 0 0
n.a.
36
Iceland Iceland[8]
2 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
28
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
28
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Harvey.


References

  1. Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1880
  3. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/