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Henriette

Girls’ name Recorded 1881-2024

Henriette was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,373 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

Babies named Henriette each year, first recorded in 1881
Henriette, 1880-2025; highest in 1915.204060188019001920194019601980200020251915 peak: 53
Henriette, 1880-2025; highest in 1915.204060188019001920194019601980200020251915 peak: 53
Henriette, 1880-2025; highest in 1915.20406018801905193019551980200520251915 peak: 53
Henriette, 1880-2025; highest in 1915.20406018801930198020251915 peak: 53

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Births of Henriette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Henriette mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Henriette is “a female given name from French.” Its etymology gives the sense “Henry” (Henri).

From French Henriette, feminine form of Henri (“Henry”) coined in the seventeenth century; in English more popular as Harriet and Henrietta.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Henriette (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Henriette?

Unranked in 2025

Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,100, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.

53 babies in 1915, the peak

Henriette peaked in 1915, when 53 girls were given it, #911 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.

Henriette by year
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
20246#14,1003.7
20237#12,6264.4
20225#16,2213.0
20205#16,0033.1
20175#16,7972.9
20167#13,4184.0
20159#11,2445.0
20146#15,3063.4
20116#15,5163.4
20106#15,6673.4
Every recorded year (98)
YearBirthsRankPer million girls
20085#18,5412.6
20075#18,6452.6
20055#17,4222.7
20047#13,2473.8
19935#14,2992.8
19875#11,9472.9
19678#5,1544.8
19666#6,0643.5
19655#6,8812.8
19645#7,1432.6
19636#6,1273.1
196211#4,0955.6
19616#6,0943.0
19608#4,9224.0
19567#5,0193.5
19555#6,1862.6
19546#5,3733.1
19535#6,0062.7
19529#3,9274.9
19516#5,0733.3
195010#3,5205.8
19495#5,5502.9
194813#2,8767.7
19477#4,5093.9
19468#3,7965.1
194413#2,5549.8
194313#2,6149.3
194220#1,93414.8
194119#1,91215.7
194017#1,99314.9
193915#2,16113.7
193815#2,15813.6
19379#3,0288.5
193610#2,7539.6
193510#2,8159.5
193415#2,12514.4
19336#3,9286.0
19326#4,1065.6
193114#2,24713.1
193018#1,97516.0
192923#1,66520.6
192813#2,54911.3
192719#2,05815.9
192617#2,19814.3
192527#1,62422.2
192435#1,39128.0
192325#1,69620.7
192227#1,62422.5
192134#1,38527.6
192041#1,20034.2
191941#1,16636.3
191834#1,31029.4
191742#1,10038.8
191649#98546.9
191553#91153.9
191431#1,08840.7
191324#1,13338.4
191225#1,04444.8
191121#96950.2
191012#1,37530.3
190917#1,00149.0
190813#1,16338.9
190714#1,05643.9
190618#88361.0
190510#1,26434.3
190415#94654.5
190318#82368.7
190215#91756.8
19016#1,56025.1
190018#89860.0
189920#71485.8
189813#98250.2
189716#80868.3
189615#85463.0
189515#83764.2
189419#69185.2
18937#1,22832.9
189213#84261.2
189113#76770.1
18908#1,04442.0
18899#92550.5
188813#74272.8
18879#81661.7
18868#85955.4
18855#1,11237.6
18849#76169.8
18829#65283.5
18815#87554.4

Download Henriette’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Henriette a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Henriette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Henriette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Henriette, and how old are they?

An estimated 269 Americans named Henriette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 19 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.

The 2020 Census counted 1,311 people named Henriette (1,309 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 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.

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).

Names spelled alike

Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 54,832 babies since 1880, Henriette is the second most given (2.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 65 babies recorded by SSA was a Henriette (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).

Henriette and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Henrietta51,387651918
Henriette1,373under 51915
Henretta1,286under 51916
Henryetta447under 51919
Henritta339under 51914

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 Henriette

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1880-2025
Elta1,415
Floy6,935
Hester14,764
Alta29,048
Dessie11,731
Ona8,031

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 Henriette and names like it

  1. Compare Henriette and HenriettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1910sHenriette peaked in 1915.
  3. New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Henriette since 1910.
  4. French namesWiktionary’s origin for Henriette: every such name, by how often it is given.
  5. The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Henriette.
  6. The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Henriette alive today were born 1946-1964.
  7. Names starting with HMost given first.

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