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Henny

#2,626 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Diminutive of Henriette

Henny has been given to 1,114 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,626 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 66 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Henny, 2025

1 in 50,200

Henny over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Henny over time

In 2025, Henny went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Henny: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Henriette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Henny means

Henny is a diminutive of Henriette.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Henny → Henriette → Henriette → Henri → Henri → *Haimarīks. The family’s meaning is “home + king”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements haimaz and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

Henny is used in English, Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henriette, Henrietta, Johanna, Heinrich, Johannes, Henning and Henrika.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Henny is pronounced /ˈhɛni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,056 girls were recorded with the name Henny between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,626 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,467 in 2020 to #2,626 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,315 in 2015 to #2,626 in 2025.

In the United States, 58 boys were recorded with the name Henny between 1921 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1921; its best national rank was #3,253 in 1925.

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 Henny?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,626
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Henny 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 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hennys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henny was born before 2014 — so the typical Henny is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,056
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (359).

Is Henny 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
+362
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+841
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+689
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (66)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,626
2025

Spellings of Henny

Henny is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 33.8% against Henny's 0.14%.

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 Henny is used

Across 1910–2025, Henny was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 19,634 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 16,667
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000

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. Henny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Henny around the world

Where Henny 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
    2002–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #171
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1957–1957
    #581
    in 1957

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

Henny by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,626
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 841
Best rank ever
#2,626
2025
Peak year
2025
66 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,056
Count in 2025
66

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,253
1925
Peak year
1921
8 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Henny

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

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Sibling names for Henny

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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