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Henson

About 553 American babies have been named Henson since 1916, most of them around 2015. In 2025 it ranked 4,139th. About 460 Hensons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Henson

By the numbers

Total US births
553
Estimated living today
460
Median age today
9
Peak year
2015
Best rank
3,365th
Rank in 2025
4,139th
First recorded
1916

How old the living Hensons are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 553 babies given the name since 1916, about 460 are alive — 84 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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 Henson is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2015

The most popular boys’ names the year Henson peaked:

All the names of 2015

Henson elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Henson 47 2,682nd

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.

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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.