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There are approximately 72,373 people named Harvey in the UK. That makes it the 98th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 1,145 are named Harvey.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English
From given name or forename

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The Harvey surname in historical dictionaries

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

HARVEY. HERVEY. An ancient Nonnan personal name — TTerve. M. de Gerville in Mem. Soc. Aut. Norm., 1844, observes : " We sometimes call it Hervot . . La Hervurie signifies the habitation of Herve." As a family designation it appears in England in the XII. cent. Osbert de Hervey is styled, in the register of St. Edmundsbury, the sou of Hervey. From him according to the Peerage sprang the Herveys, ennobled in England and Ireland, and also (in all probability, from the resemblance of their arms) the De Hervi's and Hervies of Aberdeenshire and other parts of Scotland.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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