How Many People Are Named Henrietta?

11,820

people named Henrietta are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 28,915 people in the US has this name

Based on 51,387 babies named Henrietta in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,226

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,229

See the top 100

Peak Year

1918

1,411 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English, Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch
Pronunciation: hen-ree-ET-ə (English), HEN-ree-et-taw (Hungarian), HEN-ree-et-tah (Finnish)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Latinate form of HENRIETTE. It was introduced to England by Henriette Marie, the wife of the 17th-century English king Charles I. The name Henriette was also Anglicized as Harriet, a form which was initially more popular.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Henrietta in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Henrietta alive today is about 66 years old, and 77% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 61 and 81 in 2025.

Under 30 1,230
10.4%
30 to 59 1,528
12.9%
60 and over 9,063
76.7%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Henrietta first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1918, to 1,411 babies. In 2025, 65 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Henrietta has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #105, in 1892. In 2025 it ranked #2,666.

Girls
Rank in 2025#2,666
Best rank#105 (1892)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#193 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Henrietta alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Henrietta were born in Texas than in any other state: about 714 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Henrietta was given 2.4 times as often in South Carolina, 2 times in Hawaii and 1.9 times in Arizona.

Texas 714
California 691
New York 668
South Carolina 599
Pennsylvania 566
Georgia 472
Alabama 449
Illinois 431
Louisiana 389
North Carolina 353
Florida 338
Kentucky 319
Tennessee 302
Ohio 288
Michigan 279
Mississippi 266
Virginia 220
New Jersey 216
Missouri 185
Arkansas 162
Indiana 149
New Mexico 139
Maryland 128
Arizona 119
West Virginia 101
Minnesota 87
Colorado 84
Hawaii 77
Massachusetts 66
Wisconsin 65
District of Columbia 41
Washington 37
Kansas 36
Connecticut 33
Iowa 31
Oklahoma 25
Nebraska 18
North Dakota 9
South Dakota 6
Delaware 3
Maine 2
Oregon 1
Montana 1

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