Hennessy
Hennessy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 44 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 440.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201982 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1991
- 1,593people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,531 girls have been named Hennessy in the United States since 1991, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 82 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2011, and the 2010s alone account for 38%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 62 boys have also been given it, 3.9% of the total.
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Hennessy was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Hennessy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kaliyapeak 2009
- Ryliepeak 2008
- Alynapeak 2007
- Jazlynpeak 2008
- Fernandapeak 2009
- Alizaepeak 2006
- Madelynnpeak 2009
- Sinaipeak 2023
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.