girls:
654 births since 1904
#5062 (11th percentile)
boys:
5.1k births since 1885
#1676 (63rd percentile)
overall:
5.8k births since 1885
#3574 (54th percentile)
The name Henri is the #3,574 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,776 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 53.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,676 (63.4% percentile) for all time with 5,122 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,062 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 654 births since 1904.
Henri first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1904 for girls). Birth data for Henri is available in 123 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (122 years for boys and 61 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Henri has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Henri were boys.
For boys, Henri reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 15.3% percentile (ranked #788) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 78 births per million (ranked 15.3% percentile). Despite a peak around 1989, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Henri ranks #787 for boys (13.6% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 89.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Henri reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #572) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Henri".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Henri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.9% confident that Henri is pronounced as HEH-nree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-NREE, at 20.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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