Henry

166,610 people in the United States were counted with the surname Henry in the 2020 census, making it the 153rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 1,794.

By the numbers

People: 166,610
Rank: 153rd
How common: 1 in 1,794
Per 100,000: 55.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Henry described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.1%
Black, not Hispanic 30.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%

Notable people called Henry

Thierry Henry (born 1977)French association football player and manager
O. Henry (1862–1910)American short story writer
Joseph Henry (1797–1878)American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian
Lou Henry Hoover (1874–1944)First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
Patrick Henry (1736–1799)American Founding Father, orator and politician
Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau (1584–1647)prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland
Mark Henry (born 1971)American professional wrestler and weightlifter
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900–1974)British soldier (1900–1974), Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947

People named Henry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Henry

Also a first name

Henry has been given to 773,564 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.