Henri
The boy's name Henri has been in the national records since 1885, with 5,987 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,708th. About 4,400 Henris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Henri boys named Henri
Girls and boys called Henri
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 659 girls and 5,328 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 95.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 106 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 5,987
- Estimated living today
- 4,400
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 1,273rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,708th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 659 / 5,328
How old the living Henris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 5,987 babies given the name since 1885, about 4,400 are alive — 74 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 660 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 French
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Henris
- Henri Bergson (1859–1941)French philosopher
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)French painter and illustrator
- Henri Rousseau (1844–1910)French painter
- Henri Troyat (1911–2007)French Armenian writer
- Henri de Régnier (1864–1936)French poet
- Henri Lebesgue (1875–1941)French mathematician
- Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904)French painter and printmaker
- Henri Pirenne (1862–1935)Belgian historian
People named Henri with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Henri is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Henri is most concentrated in Massachusetts (4.1×), Rhode Island (3.4×), California (2.9×), New York (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Henri peaked:
Henri elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Henri | 407,330 | 8th |
| Belgium boys | Henri | 3,068 | 34th |
| England and Wales boys | Henri | 1,388 | 482nd |
| Switzerland boys | Henri | 944 | 116th |
| France girls | Henri | 165 | 1,387th |
| Ireland boys | Henri | 16 | 493rd |
| Poland boys | Henri | 15 birth registrations | 442nd |
| Norway boys | Henri | 9 | 347th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Henri | 3 | 398th |
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.
Henri: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Henri | 712 | 0.057% | 100th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Henri | 229 | 0.053% | 119th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Henri | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Henri | 2 | 0.054% | 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, Henri is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.09% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Henri: rank by region
In 2025, Henri was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Henri | 55 | 87 |
| Wallonia | Henri | 63 | 47 |
| Brussels | Henri | 153 | 8 |
In 2021, Henri was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Henri | 10 | 2 |
In 2024, Henri was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Henri | 252 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Henri appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (9th), Province of Walloon Brabant (16th), Province of Luxembourg (46th), Province of East Flanders (58th), Province of Liège (80th), Province of Limburg (89th), Province of Hainaut (90th), Brussels-Capital Region (153rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (155th) and Province of Antwerp (163rd).
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.
Henri by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 447 | 35th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Henri 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Henri | 5,531 | 16,455 |
| Finland boys | Henri | 12,702 | 15,656 |
| the Netherlands girls | Henri | — | 303 |
| Finland girls | Henri | 5 | 9 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – 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 Henri lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 186 men called Henri 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Málaga | Henri | 20 | 0.023 | 1,995 |
| Girona | Henri | 8 | 0.019 | 2,513 |
| Valencia/València | Henri | 22 | 0.016 | 2,777 |
| Tarragona | Henri | 7 | 0.016 | 2,823 |
| Navarra | Henri | 5 | 0.015 | 2,888 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Henri | 15 | 0.015 | 3,387 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 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
Henri 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.