Henry

US Popularity History (1880–2025)

Annual imported US counts for Henry by recorded sex, from US Social Security Administration records. Highest count in the imported records: 2025 with 12,020 boys named Henry (boy rank #5 that year).

Source: US Social Security Administration. Coverage: imported US Social Security card-application records, not a complete birth census. Historical coverage is narrower, including top-100 selection before 2000; recent imports also use catalog and rank filters. Missing rows can reflect those filters or source privacy limits and must not be read as zero or fewer than five uses. Spellings and recorded sex are kept separate.

Look up Henry across states

Compare this exact spelling in one year and recorded sex list. Missing state records remain unknown.

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Observed State Ranks for Henry

Average boy-name rank across the same 2016–2025 window, limited to 51 jurisdictions with every year imported. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings. This is an ordinal comparison, not a per-capita rate. States with missing years are excluded. For Henry the lowest observed averages are in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska.

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. Only states with all 10 annual observations for this spelling and recorded sex are compared. Missing states are excluded, not assigned zero. Average rank measures position in state rankings, not a per-capita rate. Local import filters and SSA privacy limits can both create gaps. Coverage and limitations.

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Famous People Named Henry

12 notable figures from history and culture who share the name Henry.

• Henry Adams was a well known American academician.
• Henry Ford — Entrepreneur (1863)
• Henry George was an American Economist who was an influential political figure.
• Henry Graham Greene was one of the most-acclaimed English writers.
• Henry Gray was an English anatomist, who authored the famous book ‘Gray’s Anatomy’.
• Henry Kissinger — Politician (1923)
• Henry Mancini was the multi-faceted composer, conductor and arranger, who is a name to reckon with in the realms of music.
• Henry Moore was a sculptor and artist best known for his abstract bronze sculptures.
• Henry Ossawa Tanner was a renowned African American painter.
• Henry Purcell was a 17th century English musician and composer.
• Henry Rollins — Punk Singer (1961)
• Henry Tayali was a Zambian fine artist and sculptor.

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Compare Henry to Other Popular Names

Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Henry against names with the largest imported counts for boys-name peers (top 8 with every year imported, 2016–2025). Names with missing annual observations are excluded from this comparison.

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