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Henderson

#2,619 in 2025Boys' name

Son of Henry

Henderson has been given to 4,293 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,619 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Henderson, 2025

1 in 66,300

Henderson over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henderson: meaning, origin, and history

Son of Henry

surname transfer

What Henderson means

Henderson means “son of Henry”.

Origin, language, and formation

Henderson is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Henderson is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Henderson is pronounced /ˈhɛndɚsən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,293 boys were recorded with the name Henderson between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 1918; its best national rank was #339 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,400 in 2020 to #2,619 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,392 in 2015 to #2,619 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Henderson?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,619
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Henderson sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henderson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hendersons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henderson was born before 1942 — so the typical Henderson is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,855
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Choose a decade

1920s — 14.4% of all recorded uses (619).

Is Henderson rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−535
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−219
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+773
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.52×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.2%
Peak was 1918 (83)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#339
1882

Spellings of Henderson

Henderson is not the most common spelling — Anderson is, with 88.8% against Henderson's 11.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Henderson is used

Across 2016–2025, Henderson was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 53,542 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 25,000
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 50,000
  6. 6Tennessee1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Henderson around the world

Where Henderson ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Henderson

People whose public names include Henderson, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Henderson by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,619
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 219
Best rank ever
#339
1882
Peak year
1918
83 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,293
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Henderson

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Henderson

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Henderson, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Henderson

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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