Henry
Henry reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 5, and has been recorded 773,564 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5th. About 385,000 Henrys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Henry boys named Henry
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 773,564
- Estimated living today
- 385,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 5th
- Rank in 2025
- 5th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 4,619 / 768,945
How old the living Henrys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 773,564 babies given the name since 1880, about 385,000 are alive — 50 in every hundred. Roughly 171,000 of them are children and 89,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From Middle English Henry, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) Henri, from Frankish *Haimrik, from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks. Cognate with German Heinrich, Dutch Hendrik, Estonian Hendrik, and Old Norse Heimríkr (Danish Henrik).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Henrys
- Henry Ford (1863–1947)American business magnate
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)American essayist, poet, and philosopher
- Henry Kissinger (1923–2023)American diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977
- William Henry Harrison (1773–1841)president of the United States in 1841
- Henry VIII of England (1491–1547)King of England from 1509 to 1547
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)British biologist and comparative anatomist
- Henry Dunant (1828–1910)Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross
- William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)British scientist
People named Henry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Henry is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Henry is most concentrated in Mississippi (2.2×), South Carolina (2.0×), Alabama (1.7×), Hawaii (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Henry peaked:
Henry elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Henry | 67,472 | 13th |
| France boys | Henry | 12,200 | 108th |
| New Zealand boys | Henry | 3,960 | 8th |
| Sweden boys | Henry | 3,113 | 43rd |
| Ireland boys | Henry | 2,744 | 75th |
| Norway boys | Henry | 2,562 | 52nd |
| Switzerland boys | Henry | 1,695 | 37th |
| Scotland boys | Henry | 1,671 | 92nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Henry | 961 | 22nd |
| Belgium boys | Henry | 760 | 233rd |
| Poland boys | Henry | 412 birth registrations | 204th |
| Italy boys | Henry | 286 | — |
| Austria boys | Henry | 131 | 60th |
| France girls | Henry | 5 | 1,232nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Henry: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Henry | 1,505 | 0.121% | 34th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Henry | 184 | 0.042% | 118th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Henry | 5 | 0.008% | 180th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Henry | 1 | 0.027% | 6th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Henry is most concentrated in Zug, where 0.22% of children were given it – 61 of them.
Henry: rank by region
In 2025, Henry was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Henry | 317 | 18 |
| Wallonia | Henry | 140 | 21 |
| Brussels | Henry | 153 | 8 |
In 2024, Henry was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Henry | 8 | 1 |
In 2025, Henry was given 2 times or more in 6 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Henry | 188 | 4 |
| Łódzkie | Henry | 158 | 3 |
| Małopolskie | Henry | 203 | 3 |
| Mazowieckie | Henry | 235 | 4 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Henry | 100 | 2 |
| Wielkopolskie | Henry | 248 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Henry appears in the lists for Province of Liège (117th), Brussels-Capital Region (153rd), Province of Hainaut (153rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (218th) and Province of Antwerp (251st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Henry by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 828 | 11th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Henry among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Henry | 4,008 | 6,452 |
| the Netherlands boys | Henry | 1,904 | 5,635 |
| the Netherlands girls | Henry | — | 46 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Henry lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,691 men called Henry were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Henry | 79 | 0.148 | 654 |
| Palmas, Las | Henry | 71 | 0.122 | 770 |
| Soria | Henry | 5 | 0.109 | 605 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Henry | 32 | 0.103 | 732 |
| Madrid | Henry | 346 | 0.102 | 598 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Henry | 102 | 0.101 | 774 |
Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Henry against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.