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 0.012206134 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 0.008752041 25 2596 -98%
1889 2304 0.007973808 18 2286 -98%
1890 2368 0.007856643 19 2349 -98%
1891 2071 0.007224309 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 0.005665136 16 2145 -99%
1899 1852 0.005459375 21 1831 -98%
1900 2631 0.005843278 25 2606 -98%
1901 1887 0.005456722 17 1870 -98%
1902 2168 0.00560595 14 2154 -99%
1903 1940 0.005089165 18 1922 -98%
1904 2099 0.005202176 14 2085 -99%
1905 2145 0.005059857 19 2126 -98%
1906 2135 0.004983067 23 2112 -98%
1907 2217 0.004763726 14 2203 -99%
1908 2310 0.00472729 27 2283 -98%
1909 2438 0.004768947 27 2411 -98%
1910 2927 0.004955037 28 2899 -98%
1911 3197 0.004962136 30 3167 -98%
1912 5673 0.005741554 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 0.005551023 82 10656 -98%
1917 10776 0.005369863 80 10696 -99%
1918 11441 0.005269655 87 11354 -98%
1919 10709 0.005074752 96 10613 -98%
1920 11371 0.005025523 66 11305 -99%
1921 11508 0.004929527 97 11411 -98%
1922 11287 0.004930647 80 11207 -99%
1923 11148 0.004841706 81 11067 -99%
1924 11293 0.004741728 96 11197 -98%
1925 10727 0.00459731 110 10617 -98%
1926 10102 0.004400025 106 9996 -98%
1927 9973 0.004299902 105 9868 -98%
1928 9394 0.004154981 81 9313 -98%
1929 8672 0.003955899 100 8572 -98%
1930 8691 0.003909089 96 8595 -98%
1931 7886 0.003747479 82 7804 -98%
1932 7539 0.003570848 68 7471 -98%
1933 6777 0.003389503 52 6725 -98%
1934 6795 0.003271914 60 6735 -98%
1935 6917 0.003309856 62 6855 -98%
1936 6498 0.00312776 53 6445 -98%
1937 6737 0.003161984 69 6668 -98%
1938 6611 0.002987938 53 6558 -98%
1939 6609 0.002999449 48 6561 -99%
1940 6875 0.002985757 55 6820 -98%
1941 7231 0.002967976 66 7165 -98%
1942 7629 0.00279274 65 7564 -98%
1943 7675 0.002719215 47 7628 -99%
1944 7022 0.002610402 49 6973 -99%
1945 6652 0.002507493 47 6605 -99%
1946 7357 0.002302482 39 7318 -99%
1947 7853 0.002180043 46 7807 -99%
1948 7474 0.002164821 53 7421 -99%
1949 7214 0.002070185 34 7180 -99%
1950 6999 0.001997771 34 6965 -99%
1951 7154 0.001942035 36 7118 -99%
1952 7011 0.001845955 34 6977 -99%
1953 6701 0.001738889 41 6660 -99%
1954 6446 0.001619309 42 6404 -99%
1955 6228 0.001551157 35 6193 -99%
1956 6004 0.001456191 38 5966 -99%
1957 5771 0.001373232 36 5735 -99%
1958 5180 0.001253398 29 5151 -99%
1959 5096 0.001225966 36 5060 -99%
1960 5005 0.001204778 39 4966 -98%
1961 4662 0.001125835 44 4618 -98%
1962 4373 0.001083754 27 4346 -99%
1963 4210 0.00106351 27 4183 -99%
1964 4145 0.001066191 23 4122 -99%
1965 3826 0.001055266 24 3802 -99%
1966 3602 0.001036359 29 3573 -98%
1967 3358 0.000989099 25 3333 -99%
1968 3157 0.000934423 26 3131 -98%
1969 3080 0.000886166 22 3058 -99%
1970 3154 0.000874452 25 3129 -98%
1971 2968 0.00086468 20 2948 -99%
1972 2447 0.000778477 27 2420 -98%
1973 2381 0.000789163 21 2360 -98%
1974 2351 0.000773303 31 2320 -97%
1975 2114 0.000700063 25 2089 -98%
1976 2150 0.000708487 23 2127 -98%
1977 2149 0.000676488 15 2134 -99%
1978 2060 0.000648984 16 2044 -98%
1979 1963 0.000589966 17 1946 -98%
1980 2093 0.000607576 20 2073 -98%
1981 2208 0.000638226 22 2186 -98%
1982 2096 0.000597461 16 2080 -98%
1983 1979 0.000571397 27 1952 -97%
1984 2052 0.000588179 17 2035 -98%
1985 2083 0.000583635 15 2068 -99%
1986 2016 0.000566778 23 1993 -98%
1987 2106 0.000584117 18 2088 -98%
1988 2097 0.000567561 15 2082 -99%
1989 2190 0.000569674 16 2174 -99%
1990 2272 0.000574883 19 2253 -98%
1991 2271 0.000583057 12 2259 -99%
1992 2353 0.000612607 9 2344 -99%
1993 2500 0.000663133 15 2485 -99%
1994 2427 0.000652883 7 2420 -99%
1995 2549 0.000696089 5 2544 -100%
1996 2566 0.000703608 10 2556 -99%
1997 2663 0.000734514 7 2656 -99%
1998 2805 0.000762647 5 2800 -100%
1999 2934 0.000794343 7 2927 -100%
2000 3131 0.000828391 6 3125 -100%
2001 3212 0.000858114 8 3204 -100%
2002 3333 0.000891702 3333 -100%
2003 3484 0.000916418 7 3477 -100%
2004 3933 0.001029484 17 3916 -99%
2005 4194 0.001091004 14 4180 -99%
2006 4676 0.001182206 7 4669 -100%
2007 5123 0.001281824 5 5118 -100%
2008 5792 0.001474006 9 5783 -100%
2009 5906 0.00154655 8 5898 -100%
2010 6412 0.001735587 8 6404 -100%
2011 7240 0.001980139 7 7233 -100%
2012 8080 0.002210239 10 8070 -100%
2013 8891 0.002440134 9 8882 -100%
2014 9448 0.002550628 10 9438 -100%
2015 10188 0.002754714 10 10178 -100%
2016 10400 0.002836988 12 10388 -100%
2017 10488 0.002935547 11 10477 -100%
2018 10723 0.003053463 16 10707 -100%
2019 10769 0.0031072 9 10760 -100%
2020 10789 0.003236071 13 10776 -100%
2021 11365 0.003362712 15 11350 -100%
2022 11233 0.003341269 12 11221 -100%