Name Trends

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How popular is “Henry” in the USA?

Number of people named “Henry” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Henry” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Henry” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Henry” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Henry” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Henry” by birth year

This chart shows how “Henry” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 2455 0.01218459 11 2444 -99%
1881 2352 0.012206261 13 2339 -99%
1882 2596 0.011718345 17 2579 -99%
1883 2395 0.011039614 12 2383 -99%
1884 2485 0.010206973 11 2474 -99%
1885 2425 0.01006834 19 2406 -98%
1886 2418 0.009470616 14 2404 -99%
1887 2238 0.009046372 10 2228 -99%
1888 2621 0.008752012 25 2596 -98%
1889 2304 0.007973808 18 2286 -98%
1890 2368 0.007856643 19 2349 -98%
1891 2071 0.007224259 22 2049 -98%
1892 2476 0.007404882 24 2452 -98%
1893 2186 0.006721542 24 2162 -98%
1894 2295 0.006776108 17 2278 -99%
1895 2236 0.006370008 15 2221 -99%
1896 2197 0.00614573 14 2183 -99%
1897 2009 0.005790343 15 1994 -99%
1898 2161 0.00566515 16 2145 -99%
1899 1852 0.005459358 21 1831 -98%
1900 2631 0.005843317 25 2606 -98%
1901 1887 0.005456722 17 1870 -98%
1902 2168 0.005605935 14 2154 -99%
1903 1940 0.005089192 18 1922 -98%
1904 2099 0.005202176 14 2085 -99%
1905 2145 0.005059893 19 2126 -98%
1906 2135 0.004983067 23 2112 -98%
1907 2217 0.004763747 14 2203 -99%
1908 2310 0.00472732 27 2283 -98%
1909 2438 0.004768947 27 2411 -98%
1910 2927 0.004955046 28 2899 -98%
1911 3197 0.004962143 30 3167 -98%
1912 5673 0.005741543 30 5643 -99%
1913 6427 0.005652048 36 6391 -99%
1914 8169 0.005767667 59 8110 -99%
1915 10210 0.005571848 72 10138 -99%
1916 10738 0.005551027 82 10656 -98%
1917 10776 0.005369877 80 10696 -99%
1918 11441 0.005269652 87 11354 -98%
1919 10709 0.005074766 96 10613 -98%
1920 11371 0.005025539 66 11305 -99%
1921 11508 0.004929525 97 11411 -98%
1922 11287 0.004930638 80 11207 -99%
1923 11148 0.004841734 81 11067 -99%
1924 11291 0.004740911 96 11195 -98%
1925 10728 0.004597776 110 10618 -98%
1926 10100 0.004399137 106 9994 -98%
1927 9976 0.00430119 105 9871 -98%
1928 9394 0.004154913 81 9313 -98%
1929 8671 0.003955458 100 8571 -98%
1930 8690 0.003908625 96 8594 -98%
1931 7887 0.003747883 82 7805 -98%
1932 7538 0.003570327 68 7470 -98%
1933 6778 0.003389937 52 6726 -98%
1934 6796 0.003272317 60 6736 -98%
1935 6917 0.003309728 62 6855 -98%
1936 6499 0.003128162 53 6446 -98%
1937 6737 0.003161916 69 6668 -98%
1938 6610 0.002987471 53 6557 -98%
1939 6609 0.002999398 48 6561 -99%
1940 6877 0.002986514 55 6822 -98%
1941 7230 0.002967463 66 7164 -98%
1942 7627 0.002791914 65 7562 -98%
1943 7678 0.002720227 47 7631 -99%
1944 7024 0.002611076 49 6975 -99%
1945 6651 0.002507058 47 6604 -99%
1946 7356 0.002302126 39 7317 -99%
1947 7854 0.00218026 46 7808 -99%
1948 7473 0.002164507 53 7420 -99%
1949 7217 0.002071008 34 7183 -99%
1950 6999 0.001997798 34 6965 -99%
1951 7154 0.001942049 36 7118 -99%
1952 7008 0.001845179 34 6974 -99%
1953 6704 0.001739652 41 6663 -99%
1954 6443 0.001618556 41 6402 -99%
1955 6224 0.001550156 36 6188 -99%
1956 6009 0.001457421 38 5971 -99%
1957 5770 0.001373109 36 5734 -99%
1958 5183 0.001253778 29 5154 -99%
1959 5099 0.001226313 36 5063 -99%
1960 5007 0.001205398 39 4968 -98%
1961 4665 0.001126186 44 4621 -98%
1962 4374 0.001083915 27 4347 -99%
1963 4208 0.001063109 27 4181 -99%
1964 4146 0.001066466 23 4123 -99%
1965 3826 0.001055318 24 3802 -99%
1966 3603 0.001036639 29 3574 -98%
1967 3358 0.000989132 25 3333 -99%
1968 3155 0.00093387 26 3129 -98%
1969 3079 0.000885961 22 3057 -99%
1970 3152 0.000873974 25 3127 -98%
1971 2969 0.000865004 20 2949 -99%
1972 2445 0.000777921 27 2418 -98%
1973 2379 0.000788561 21 2358 -98%
1974 2351 0.000773356 31 2320 -97%
1975 2115 0.000700472 25 2090 -98%
1976 2151 0.000708895 23 2128 -98%
1977 2150 0.000676847 15 2135 -99%
1978 2058 0.00064842 16 2042 -98%
1979 1965 0.000590622 17 1948 -98%
1980 2090 0.000606763 20 2070 -98%
1981 2208 0.000638266 22 2186 -98%
1982 2096 0.000597498 16 2080 -98%
1983 1980 0.000571703 27 1953 -97%
1984 2048 0.000587029 17 2031 -98%
1985 2084 0.000583899 15 2069 -99%
1986 2017 0.000567038 23 1994 -98%
1987 2106 0.000584089 18 2088 -98%
1988 2097 0.000567517 15 2082 -99%
1989 2190 0.000569653 16 2174 -99%
1990 2272 0.000574829 19 2253 -98%
1991 2272 0.000583272 12 2260 -99%
1992 2353 0.000612557 9 2344 -99%
1993 2499 0.000662816 15 2484 -99%
1994 2427 0.000652831 7 2420 -99%
1995 2549 0.000696038 5 2544 -100%
1996 2566 0.000703554 10 2556 -99%
1997 2663 0.000734469 7 2656 -99%
1998 2805 0.0007626 5 2800 -100%
1999 2934 0.00079429 7 2927 -100%
2000 3133 0.000828857 6 3127 -100%
2001 3214 0.00085858 8 3206 -100%
2002 3338 0.000892921 3338 -100%
2003 3490 0.000917861 7 3483 -100%
2004 3937 0.001030379 17 3920 -99%
2005 4199 0.001092112 14 4185 -99%
2006 4681 0.001183209 7 4674 -100%
2007 5128 0.001282743 5 5123 -100%
2008 5796 0.00147456 9 5787 -100%
2009 5907 0.001546264 8 5899 -100%
2010 6414 0.001735512 8 6406 -100%
2011 7241 0.001979609 7 7234 -100%
2012 8085 0.002210607 10 8075 -100%
2013 8892 0.00243906 9 8883 -100%
2014 9452 0.0025502 10 9442 -100%
2015 10194 0.002754456 10 10184 -100%
2016 10401 0.002835066 12 10389 -100%
2017 10491 0.002933565 11 10480 -100%
2018 10728 0.003051284 16 10712 -100%
2019 10775 0.003104353 9 10766 -100%
2020 10802 0.003233573 13 10789 -100%
2021 11382 0.003359555 15 11367 -100%
2022 11282 0.003334777 12 11270 -100%
2023 10997 0.003321156 9 10988 -100%
2024 11561 0.003473335 14 11547 -100%