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Henna

#4,015 in 2025Girls' name

Home, through Henriikka

Henna has been given to 1,324 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #4,015 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Henna, 2025

1 in 92,100

Henna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henna: meaning, origin, and history

Home, through Henriikka

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Henna means

Henna belongs to the name family reached through Henna → Henriikka → Henrik. Its meaning is “home”.

Origin, language, and formation

Henna is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henriikka and Henrik.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Henna is pronounced /ˈhenːɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,324 girls were recorded with the name Henna between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 2001; its best national rank was #2,779 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,045 in 2020 to #4,015 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,176 in 2015 to #4,015 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 Henna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,015
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Henna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henna was born before 2005 — so the typical Henna is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,324
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (409).

Is Henna 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
+1,050
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+161
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.9%
Peak was 2001 (53)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,779
2001

Spellings of Henna

Henna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 22.2% against Henna's 0.03%.

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 Henna is used

Across 1910–2025, Henna was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 93,261 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Henna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Henna around the world

Where Henna 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
    1996–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1987–1998
    #476
    in 1998
  • France
    1992–2022
    #5,024
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1992–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Henna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,015
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 30
Best rank ever
#2,779
2001
Peak year
2001
53 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,324
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Henna

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

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Sibling names for Henna

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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