Henri

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Henri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 108 births. Its best rank was 782nd, in 1888.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1080.01% of boys
Peak year: 2021149 births
Best rank: #782in 1888
Since 1885: 5,893people given the name

Babies named Henri, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,234 boys have been named Henri in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 149 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 2010s alone account for 20%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 659 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Henri
1880s	19
1890s	8
1900s	29
1910s	217
1920s	309
1930s	269
1940s	269
1950s	360
1960s	335
1970s	289
1980s	317
1990s	449
2000s	701
2010s	1,031
2020s	632

In 2021, its biggest year

Henri was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2021 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Elijah and James. See all of 2021.

Names that rose and fell with Henri

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Henry761,424 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.