Henny
Henny was given to 66 girls in 2025, #2,626 among girls’ names; 1,114 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Henny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Henny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Henny mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Henny is “a diminutive of the female given name Henrietta.”
/ˈhɛni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Henny?
#2,626 among girls’ names, 2025
Henny rose from #3,315 in 2015 to #2,626 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 27.4 to 41.1 per million.
66 babies in 2025, the peak
Henny peaked in 2025, when 66 girls were given it, #2,626 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 55 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,626 | 41.1 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,988 | 33.9 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,796 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,838 | 36.6 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,798 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,467 | 27.2 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,519 | 26.2 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,697 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,723 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,902 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,315 | 27.4 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,497 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,600 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,453 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,394 | 18.8 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,232 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,402 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,486 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,286 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,789 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,647 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,114 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,163 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,141 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,729 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,594 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,008 | 9.6 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,560 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,434 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,379 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,205 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,349 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,696 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,290 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,038 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,076 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,827 | 3.4 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,657 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,467 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,618 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,939 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,811 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,045 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,439 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Henny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,114 Americans recorded as Henny, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 66 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Henny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Henny, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,114 Americans ever recorded as Henny. The median Henny alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,330 people named Henny (1,179 women and girls, 151 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 738 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 90 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 345 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 588 |
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 Henny born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 46 | #373 | 11.3× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #594 | 1.6× |
Where Henny is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Henny is most over-represented in New York: since 1921 it was given 11.3 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 Henny 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, Henny is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 66 of their 111 babies (59%), the 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 Henny
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 Henny and names like it
- Compare Henny and HennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHenny peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Henny since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Henny.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Henny alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.