girls:
4.6k births since 1880
#2512 (56th percentile)
boys:
745.2k births since 1880
#45 (99th percentile)
overall:
749.8k births since 1880
#75 (99th percentile)
The name Henry is the #75 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 749,757 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #45 (99.0% percentile) for all time with 745,172 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,512 (56.0% percentile) for all time with 4,585 births since 1880.
Henry has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Henry has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Henry reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 99.4% percentile (ranked #7) with 6,013 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 21,602 births per million (ranked 96.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1990, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Henry ranks #8 for boys (99.2% percentile) with 5,975 births per million, which is 27.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Henry reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 17.0% percentile (ranked #510) with 87 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 147 births per million (ranked 5.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Henry ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 3.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Henry".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Henry. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Henry is pronounced as HEH-nree, which has 2 syllables.
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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) 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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