Henri

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #1,708 for boys in 2025, 95 births
Given to boys 89.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
1888 · 8 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,328
since 1885

Henri over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201888peak #1,486, 1904peak #755, 1888girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025—#1,70895
2024#15,2935#1,589108
2023—#1,416129
2022#11,2318#1,314143
2021#15,2515#1,273149
2020—#1,579103
2019#10,4739#1,365131
2018#12,4647#1,465118
2017—#1,488113
2016#11,7818#1,443120
2015#14,4826#1,555104
2014—#1,59798
2013—#1,61395
2012#14,9626#1,67691
2011—#1,60196
2010—#2,06965
2009—#1,70891
2008—#1,81381
2007—#1,92873
2006—#1,82375
2005—#1,86968
2004—#1,67177
2003—#1,80066
2002—#1,83262
2001—#1,87159
2000—#2,04949
1999—#1,90351
1998—#1,68061
1997—#1,64861
1996—#1,76452
1995—#2,25335
1994—#2,08239
1993#13,4425#1,82446
1992—#2,08537
1991—#2,09535
1990—#2,21432
1989—#1,79342
1988—#2,03531
1987—#1,97431
1986#9,5456#2,05728
1985—#1,76434
1984—#1,79631
1983—#1,82230
1982—#1,92928
1981—#1,94228
1980—#1,69534
1979—#1,63335
1978—#2,20521
1977—#1,78029
1976—#2,24520
1975—#1,94824
1974—#1,54632
1973—#1,51432
1972—#1,68027
1971—#1,52632
1970—#1,37437
1969—#1,60526
1968—#1,73121
1967#6,0426#1,19839
1966—#1,21638
1965#4,8318#1,36032
1964#4,6369#1,43530
1963—#1,21541
1962—#1,54626
1961#5,8516#1,26239
1960#4,18410#1,21042
1959#3,43613#1,58825
1958#3,08515#1,32134
1957#3,93010#1,38832
1956#4,8377#1,12046
1955#4,0699#1,31333
1954#3,32512#1,16941
1953#2,59517#1,18939
1952#3,04013#1,34731
1951#2,93713#1,27933
1950#2,53516#1,03746
1949#2,85013#1,54423
1948#2,49116#1,40027
1947#2,08922#1,48225
1946#2,59714#1,23632
1945#2,45813#1,29626
1944#2,02718#1,32825
1943#2,25116#1,21432
1942#2,41614#1,26830
1941#2,09616#1,37224
1940#1,74521#1,33425
1939#3,1458#1,42522
1938#2,22514#1,22129
1937#2,31713#1,52820
1936#2,68910#1,54019
1935#2,73110#1,39024
1934#2,42412#1,11635
1933—#1,36124
1932#3,0479#1,42624
1931#3,8486#1,19433
1930#3,0559#1,11639
1929#4,0536#1,21433
1928#4,7255#1,18836
1927#3,2849#1,37229
1926#2,87211#1,17437
1925#2,19117#1,36029
1924#3,14410#1,28732
1923#3,6418#1,38528
1922#3,3799#1,59123
1921#3,16410#1,36030
1920#3,09710#1,27332
1919#2,26415#1,35128
1918#2,28915#1,12437
1917#2,55212#1,22231
1916#2,49812#1,17631
1915#2,9009#1,34225
1914#3,6185#1,44118
1913#2,8276#1,25617
1912—#1,17416
1911—#89614
1910——
1909—#1,2776
1908——
1907—#1,2006
1906—#1,0047
1905—#1,2335
1904#1,4867—
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1900—#1,3105
1899——
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1896—#8268
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1888—#7558
1887—#8196
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1885—#9365
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First appearance
1885

The first year at least five boys were named Henri! It came in at #936, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1885–1886, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Henri is popular in 1888

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Henri
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 119 spots since 2024 (#1,589 → #1,708)
  • 129 spots since 2020 (#1,579 → #1,708)
  • 153 spots since 2015 (#1,555 → #1,708)
  • Biggest jump: 64 spots in 1888 (#819 → #755)
  • Biggest drop: 278 spots in 1912 (#896 → #1,174)
Rise & fade · boys
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1885
  • Peaked 1888 at #755 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1887–1888
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,741
  • Highest: 1 in 11,741 boys born in 2021 were named Henri (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 17,980 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #755 in 1888, was only 1 in 15,106 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 19.4% of all boys named Henri (1,031) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1905
  • Mostly girls until 1904, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s19#755 (1888)#837
1890s8#826 (1896)#826
1900s29#1,004 (1906)#1,205
1910s217#896 (1911)#1,220
1920s309#1,174 (1926)#1,320
1930s269#1,116 (1930)#1,332
1940s269#1,214 (1943)#1,347
1950s360#1,037 (1950)#1,275
1960s334#1,198 (1967)#1,378
1970s289#1,374 (1970)#1,745
1980s317#1,695 (1980)#1,881
1990s449#1,648 (1997)#1,955
2000s701#1,671 (2004)#1,836
2010s1,031#1,365 (2019)#1,587
2020s727#1,273 (2021)#1,480

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Henri in 1888

boys
#755
8 births · 1 in 15,107 boys

Top boys' names in 1888

  1. #1John9,247
  2. #2William8,705
  3. #3James5,562
  4. #4George4,912
  5. #5Charles4,591
  6. #6Frank3,459
  7. #7Joseph2,993
  8. #8Robert2,814
  9. #9Harry2,759
  10. #10Henry2,596
  11. #755Henri8
More about 1888

boys

120,852 boys got a published name in 1888; 1 in 15,107 of them was named Henri, which outranked 35.9% of the 1,177 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 39.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Henri
  1. #704Verner9
  2. #704Wellington9
  3. #704Williams9
  4. #755Henri8
  5. #755Abel8
  6. #755Anastacio8
  7. #755Angel8
  8. #815Alfonso7
  9. #815Alger7
  10. #815Alois7

Tied with 59 names at #755; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1887
Risers
  1. ↑ 416Dell#921 → #505
  2. ↑ 416Reed#921 → #505
  3. ↑ 377Simeon#819 → #442
  4. ↑ 375Hardy#752 → #377
  5. ↑ 367Hazel#921 → #554
Fallers
  1. ↓ 487Connie#544 → #1,031
  2. ↓ 448Alice#583 → #1,031
  3. ↓ 448Shelton#583 → #1,031
  4. ↓ 401Bruno#516 → #917
  5. ↓ 401Young#516 → #917

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1888 →