The story in the numbers

756,825 boys have been named Henry in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 11,547 births — 0.67% of all boys recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 109 of them in the top 100 and 28 in the top 10.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,599 girls have also been given it, 0.60% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

By decade

Decade

boys named Henry

24,139

21,664

21,772

79,667

104,552

70,418

72,486

62,232

39,135

23,515

20,727

25,244

42,742

92,571

55,961

In 2024, its biggest year

Henry was the 6th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Henry

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.