Henrietta

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)

Popularity Trends

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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Key Statistics

Total Births
51,172
Peak Births
1,411
Peak Year
1917
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
74.1%
Current Percentile
5.4%
Peak Rank
#150
Current Rank
#896
Female statistics
Total Births
57
Peak Births
9
Peak Year
1930
First Recorded
1892
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#521
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Henrietta

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.

HEH-nree-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
Verified
43.3% confidence
HH EH1 N R IY0 EH1 T AH0
heh-nree-EH-tuh (4 syllables)
Verified
40.3% confidence
HH EH0 N R IY0 EH1 T AH0
heh-NREE-eh-tuh (4 syllables)
11.9% confidence
HH EH0 N R IY1 EH0 T AH0
HEH-nree-eh-tuh (4 syllables)
4.5% confidence
HH EH1 N R IY0 EH0 T AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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