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 0.011039664 12 2383 -99%
1884 2485 0.010206973 11 2474 -99%
1885 2425 0.01006834 19 2406 -98%
1886 2418 0.00947058 14 2404 -99%
1887 2238 0.009046335 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 0.007224284 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 0.006369989 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 0.005843304 25 2606 -98%
1901 1887 0.005456722 17 1870 -98%
1902 2168 0.005605935 14 2154 -99%
1903 1940 0.005089165 18 1922 -98%
1904 2099 0.005202176 14 2085 -99%
1905 2145 0.005059869 19 2126 -98%
1906 2135 0.004983067 23 2112 -98%
1907 2217 0.004763736 14 2203 -99%
1908 2310 0.00472731 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 0.005741548 30 5643 -99%
1913 6427 0.005652043 36 6391 -99%
1914 8169 0.005767658 59 8110 -99%
1915 10210 0.005571836 72 10138 -99%
1916 10738 0.005551032 82 10656 -98%
1917 10776 0.005369877 80 10696 -99%
1918 11441 0.00526965 87 11354 -98%
1919 10709 0.005074761 96 10613 -98%
1920 11371 0.005025539 66 11305 -99%
1921 11508 0.004929529 97 11411 -98%
1922 11287 0.004930641 80 11207 -99%
1923 11148 0.004841728 81 11067 -99%
1924 11292 0.004741325 96 11196 -98%
1925 10727 0.004597342 110 10617 -98%
1926 10102 0.004400023 106 9996 -98%
1927 9973 0.004299891 105 9868 -98%
1928 9394 0.00415494 81 9313 -98%
1929 8672 0.00395593 100 8572 -98%
1930 8690 0.003908625 96 8594 -98%
1931 7887 0.003747921 82 7805 -98%
1932 7538 0.003570349 68 7470 -98%
1933 6778 0.003389963 52 6726 -98%
1934 6795 0.003271858 60 6735 -98%
1935 6918 0.003310251 62 6856 -98%
1936 6498 0.003127706 53 6445 -98%
1937 6737 0.003161973 69 6668 -98%
1938 6610 0.002987474 53 6557 -98%
1939 6610 0.002999877 48 6562 -99%
1940 6875 0.002985707 55 6820 -98%
1941 7231 0.00296793 66 7165 -98%
1942 7627 0.002791975 65 7562 -98%
1943 7677 0.002719875 47 7630 -99%
1944 7023 0.002610726 49 6974 -99%
1945 6652 0.002507474 47 6605 -99%
1946 7356 0.002302149 39 7317 -99%
1947 7854 0.002180298 46 7808 -99%
1948 7473 0.002164515 53 7420 -99%
1949 7216 0.002070743 34 7182 -99%
1950 6998 0.001997506 34 6964 -99%
1951 7155 0.001942329 36 7119 -99%
1952 7009 0.001845442 34 6975 -99%
1953 6702 0.001739148 41 6661 -99%
1954 6445 0.001619068 42 6403 -99%
1955 6225 0.001550424 35 6190 -99%
1956 6008 0.001457178 38 5970 -99%
1957 5770 0.001373135 36 5734 -99%
1958 5185 0.001254158 29 5156 -99%
1959 5094 0.001225485 36 5058 -99%
1960 5005 0.001204886 39 4966 -98%
1961 4664 0.001126039 44 4620 -98%
1962 4372 0.001083567 27 4345 -99%
1963 4210 0.001063579 27 4183 -99%
1964 4146 0.001066478 23 4123 -99%
1965 3827 0.001055584 24 3803 -99%
1966 3602 0.001036376 29 3573 -98%
1967 3358 0.000989136 25 3333 -99%
1968 3155 0.000933884 26 3129 -98%
1969 3080 0.000886242 22 3058 -99%
1970 3152 0.000873977 25 3127 -98%
1971 2968 0.00086473 20 2948 -99%
1972 2446 0.000778233 27 2419 -98%
1973 2379 0.00078857 21 2358 -98%
1974 2351 0.000773355 31 2320 -97%
1975 2114 0.000700145 25 2089 -98%
1976 2150 0.000708563 23 2127 -98%
1977 2150 0.000676864 15 2135 -99%
1978 2060 0.00064906 16 2044 -98%
1979 1963 0.000590028 17 1946 -98%
1980 2089 0.000606476 20 2069 -98%
1981 2208 0.000638273 22 2186 -98%
1982 2096 0.000597502 16 2080 -98%
1983 1980 0.000571713 27 1953 -97%
1984 2049 0.000587332 17 2032 -98%
1985 2084 0.000583921 15 2069 -99%
1986 2017 0.000567059 23 1994 -98%
1987 2105 0.000583832 18 2087 -98%
1988 2097 0.000567545 15 2082 -99%
1989 2190 0.00056967 16 2174 -99%
1990 2272 0.000574863 19 2253 -98%
1991 2272 0.000583299 12 2260 -99%
1992 2353 0.000612588 9 2344 -99%
1993 2499 0.000662841 15 2484 -99%
1994 2427 0.000652861 7 2420 -99%
1995 2549 0.000696064 5 2544 -100%
1996 2566 0.000703584 10 2556 -99%
1997 2663 0.000734493 7 2656 -99%
1998 2805 0.000762624 5 2800 -100%
1999 2934 0.000794315 7 2927 -100%
2000 3133 0.000828882 6 3127 -100%
2001 3213 0.000858341 8 3205 -100%
2002 3337 0.000892692 3337 -100%
2003 3485 0.000916619 7 3478 -100%
2004 3936 0.001030196 17 3919 -99%
2005 4197 0.001091676 14 4183 -99%
2006 4680 0.001183074 7 4673 -100%
2007 5126 0.001282379 5 5121 -100%
2008 5794 0.001474263 9 5785 -100%
2009 5907 0.00154654 8 5899 -100%
2010 6413 0.00173552 8 6405 -100%
2011 7241 0.001979955 7 7234 -100%
2012 8083 0.002210495 10 8073 -100%
2013 8891 0.002439364 9 8882 -100%
2014 9450 0.002550321 10 9440 -100%
2015 10192 0.002754707 10 10182 -100%
2016 10401 0.002835975 12 10389 -100%
2017 10489 0.002934218 11 10478 -100%
2018 10727 0.003052516 16 10711 -100%
2019 10772 0.003105405 9 10763 -100%
2020 10794 0.003233823 13 10781 -100%
2021 11378 0.003361611 15 11363 -100%
2022 11274 0.003336874 12 11262 -100%
2023 10950 0.003320953 9 10941 -100%