Henery vs Henri

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Henery Henri

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Henri for 100 years and Henery for 46 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

• 1880–1912 Henery ahead
• 1918–1920 Henri ahead
• 1921–1928 Henery ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1929–2025 Henri ahead, apart from one short spell

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Henerys alive today are over 67; half the Henris are over 21. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Henery Alabama (9.4×), Mississippi (8.5×), Georgia (6.2×)
• Henri Massachusetts (4.1×), Rhode Island (3.4×), California (2.9×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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