Henriette

Girls' name

Home + king, through Henri

Henriette has been given to 1,373 babies in the U.S. since 1881. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Henriette, 2024

1 in 557,000

Henriette over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henriette: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through Henri

French

What Henriette means

Henriette belongs to the name family reached through Henriette → Henriette → Henri → Henri → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From French Henriette, feminine form of Henri (“Henry”) coined in the seventeenth century; in English more popular as Harriet and Henrietta.

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Origin, language, and formation

Henriette is used in English, Danish, Estonian, French, Norman and Norwegian. Its origins include French.

Henriette comes through French Henriette.

Henriette is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henri, Harriet, Henriette and *Haimarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Henriette is pronounced [ˌhɛnʁiˈɛd̥ə].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,373 girls were recorded with the name Henriette between 1881 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1915; its best national rank was #652 in 1882.

How common is Henriette?

Henriette had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Henriette 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henriette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Henriettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henriette was born before 1920 — so the typical Henriette is around 105 today.

Median birth year: 1920; About 105 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 24.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 6.1%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 197; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 24.2% of all recorded uses (332).

Is Henriette 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1915 (53)
Years since peak: 110; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 21.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #652; 1882

Spellings of Henriette

Henriette is not the most common spelling — Henrietta is, with 81.8% against Henriette's 2.2%.

Henrietta81.8%51,330
Harriette13.9%8,740
Henriette2.2%1,373
Henretta2.1%1,286

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 Henriette is used

Across 1910–2025, Henriette was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 356,468 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 in 100,000
2Illinois1 in —
3Massachusetts1 in —
4New Jersey1 in —
5Pennsylvania1 in —
6Texas1 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. Henriette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Henriette around the world

Where Henriette 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
1996–2022
#5,670
in 2022
France
1900–2025
#3,386
in 2025
Norway
1880–2025
#350
in 2025
Canada
2005–2024
#3,457
in 2024
South Australia
1953–2013
#818
in 2013

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

Henriette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #652; 1882
Peak year: 1915; 53 that year
First recorded: 1881
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 1,373
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Henriette

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

Sibling names for Henriette

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

For a sister

Golda Lauretta Era Leatha Leone Mayme Artie Alpha

For a brother

Gustave Waldo Orrin Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Regis

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