girls:
51.2k births since 1880
#569 (90th percentile)
boys:
57 births since 1892
#4529 (1st percentile)
overall:
51.2k births since 1880
#1064 (86th percentile)
The name Henrietta is the #1,064 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 51,229 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #569 (90.1% percentile) for all time with 51,172 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,529 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 57 births since 1892.
Henrietta has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1892 for boys).
The name Henrietta has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Henrietta reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 74.1% percentile (ranked #150) with 1,201 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 1,957 births per million (ranked 52.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Henrietta ranks #896 for girls (5.4% percentile) with 32 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Henrietta reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #521) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Henrietta".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Henrietta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.3% confident that Henrietta is pronounced as HEH-nree-EH-tuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is heh-nree-EH-tuh, at 40.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like HH EH1 N R IY0 EH1 T AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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