How rare is the name Henrietta?

13,628 people in the United States have the first name Henrietta, about 1 in 22,163. It ranks #2,015 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HENRIETTA

#2,015

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,628
About
1 in 22,163
This common or more
78.1%
Who bears it

Of the 13,628 people named Henrietta, 47.1% reported their origin as White, 37.4% as Black and 8.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Henrietta peaked in 1918, when 1,411 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1918
Births that year
1,411
In 2025*
65 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 51,387 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Henrietta by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #167. The largest share of babies named Henrietta, 45.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#1862,480
1890s#1674,045
1900s#1974,514
1910s#26610,405
1920s#35010,476
1930s#4715,828
1940s#5555,655
1950s#8243,830
1960s#1,3341,779
1970s#2,485660
1980s#4,643318
1990s#7,496223
2000s#12,752144
2010s#5,068581
2020s#4,300449
Before 190113.7%
Greatest Generation 1901–2745.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4521.3%
Baby boom 1946–6413.9%
Generation X 1965–802.6%
Millennials 1981–960.9%
Generation Z 1997–120.6%
2013 and later1.8%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Henrietta is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Henrietta has been most common in South Carolina (3.3×), Alabama (1.9×), and Hawaii (1.8×), and least common in Oregon (0.16×).

36,596 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Henrietta

#2,013 Mckinley · 13,648#2,014 Rae · 13,639#2,016 Glenna · 13,608#2,017 Halle · 13,596

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Henrietta, most common first.

#10,241 Henriette · 1,311#41,535 Henryetta · 176#42,918 Henretta · 166#48,513 Henritta · 131#51,177 Henrieta · 115

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