Henna
Henna was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,015 among girls’ names; 1,324 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,310 Americans named Henna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 12 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Henna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Henna mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Henna is “a female given name”
A pet form of Henriikka, Henrietta.
/ˈhenːɑ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Henna?
#4,015 among girls’ names, 2025
Henna rose from #4,176 in 2015 to #4,015 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 19.6 to 22.4 per million.
53 babies in 2001, the peak
Henna peaked in 2001, when 53 girls were given it, #2,779 among girls’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,015 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,065 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,597 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,526 | 14.0 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,660 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,045 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 27 | #4,959 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,349 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,609 | 17.4 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,901 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,176 | 19.6 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,800 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,102 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,881 | 16.5 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,285 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,709 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,697 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,487 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,397 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,872 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,422 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,514 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,432 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,674 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,779 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,542 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,830 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,063 | 15.8 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,569 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,661 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,568 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,248 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,617 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,439 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,231 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,128 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,674 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,411 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,701 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,776 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,780 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,647 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,537 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,079 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,424 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,981 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,747 | 3.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,503 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,044 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Henna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Henna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Henna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Henna, and how old are they?
1,310 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,324 Americans ever recorded as Henna. The median Henna alive today is 21 years old; half are between 12 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,378 people named Henna (1,372 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 25 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 292 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 599 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 392 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Henna born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12 | #1,191 | 3.2× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #879 | 2.0× |
Where Henna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Henna is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Henna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,413 babies since 1880, Henna is the most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 111 babies (32%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Henna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Henna and names like it
- Compare Henna and HennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHenna peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Henna since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Henna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Henna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Henna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.