Henrietta
Henrietta reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 157, and has been recorded 51,387 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,645th. About 12,000 Henriettas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 73.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Henrietta boys named Henrietta
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 51,387
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 73
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 157th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,645th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 51,330 / 57
How old the living Henriettas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 51,387 babies given the name since 1880, about 12,000 are alive — 23 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 8,200 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1952 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
Latinate form of French Henriette, derived from the male given name Henry.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Henriettas
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921)American astronomer and human calculator
- Henrietta Maria of France (1609–1669)queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I
- Henrietta of England (1644–1670)English princess, duchesse of Orléans
- Henrietta Lacks (1920–1951)American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line
- Mary Henrietta, Princess Royal (1631–1660)eldest daughter of Charles I of England and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France; mother of William III of England
- Henrietta Szold (1860–1945)American Zionist
- Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797–1829)Archduchess of Austria
- Henrietta Ónodi (born 1974)Hungarian artistic gymnast
People named Henrietta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Henrietta is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Henrietta is most concentrated in South Carolina (3.3×), Alabama (1.9×), Hawaii (1.8×), Louisiana (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Henrietta peaked:
Henrietta elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Henrietta | 2,076 | 400th |
| France girls | Henrietta | 185 | 414th |
| Scotland girls | Henrietta | 29 | 485th |
| Ireland girls | Henrietta | 24 | 325th |
| Poland girls | Henrietta | 2 birth registrations | 601st |
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.
Henrietta: rank by region
In 2020, Henrietta was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Henrietta | 266 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – 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.
Henrietta 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 girls | Henrietta | 672 | 2,123 |
| Finland girls | Henrietta | 325 | 1,769 |
| the Netherlands boys | Henrietta | — | 42 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,769 who carry it, 325 go by it.
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.
Related names
Henrietta 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.