But with all that, horrendous storm Harvey and horrendous abuser Weinstein will inevitably have hugely negative effects on the name. Dowd in a popular 1950 movie, and was the name of the main character in Rudyard Kipling's novel Captains Courageous. Harvey was the name of an invisible man-sized rabbit who could only be seen by Jimmy Stewart's Elwood P. Later Harveys include industrialist Firestone, martyred San Francisco public figure Milk, comics legend Pekar, and performers Keitel, Korman and Fierstein. Harvey, which was brought to England by the Normans and is a version of the French name Herve, has some noteworthy references, such as a blind sixth century saint who was said to be a monk and minstrel able to talk to animals. English-French translation search engine, English words and expressions translated into French with examples of use in both languages. in the late nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century, after which it began to get a bit of a nerdy rep. Get relevant English-French translations in context with real-life examples for millions of words and expressions, using our natural language search engine applied on bilingual big data. This helped to bring the use of the word as a symbol of pride into wider use, as it was repurposed and taken up in a positive context of self-identification. Harvey previously had a respectable run as a Top 100 name in the U.S. Later, in the 1960s, the word gay became the word used by gay liberation activists arguing for the decriminalization of same-sex relationships and equality in all aspects of public life. And that's not good for the baby name Harvey's future. Two of the worst events of 2017 involved the name Harvey, the storm and accused sexual harasser Weinstein.