dankname US baby names, counted every year since 1880

Henry

US babies given the name, 1880–2025, from SSA records

In 2025, 12,020 boys were named Henry: #5 among boys' names that year. The most boys in one year was 12,020, in 2025.

Babies named Henry each year

GirlsBoys
Henry: babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, girls and boys. Peak 2025 with 12,040.03.8k7.5k11.3k15k18801900192019401960198020002020

Both lines are drawn because the SSA files list Henry for girls and for boys; they share one scale, so the smaller line can sit close to the floor. A break in a line is a year under the SSA's 5-birth floor, not a drop to zero.

Babies in 2025Girls 20
Boys 12,020
Rank: boys #5, girls #5,993
Peak year, both sexes202512,040 babies that year (girls + boys)
Peak year by sexGirls 1925: 110
Boys 2025: 12,020
The single year with the most babies of that sex
Highest rank everGirls #451 in 1882
Boys #5 in 2025
Earliest year it reached that rank
All-time recorded births773,564Every listed year, 1880–2025: boys 768,945, girls 4,619
Years listedGirls 145 of 146
Boys 146 of 146
Years with 5 or more babies of that sex

Every year: babies and rank

YearGirlsRankBoysRank
202520#5,99312,020#5
202414#7,73611,596#6
20239#10,63310,996#8
202212#8,73111,272#7
202115#7,40311,370#9
202013#8,13910,793#9
20199#10,80010,768#13
201816#7,22010,714#16
201711#9,55610,482#19
201612#9,08810,390#22
201510#10,40510,186#29
201410#10,4439,442#33
20139#11,3508,885#37
201210#10,7278,075#44
20117#13,8857,235#57
20108#12,7286,408#67
20098#12,8825,899#71
20089#11,9575,788#78
20075#18,6525,126#90
20067#14,1204,677#95
200514#8,0514,186#102
200417#6,8973,928#109
20037#12,9123,484#115
2002under 5 or none—3,339#115
20018#11,3883,206#120
20006#13,7883,127#126
19997#11,8252,928#129
19985#14,9972,801#135
19977#11,2562,657#139
199610#8,3852,556#139
19955#14,2392,544#136
19947#10,9802,420#145
199315#6,0642,486#136
19929#9,0012,344#141
199112#7,1172,260#143
199019#4,9302,253#138
198916#5,3782,174#141
198815#5,4172,082#140
198718#4,5342,088#137
198623#3,6781,996#139
198515#4,9302,068#137
198417#4,3902,032#135
198327#3,0871,952#136
198216#4,5822,080#134
198122#3,6562,185#126
198020#3,8942,071#135
197917#4,2961,947#138
197816#4,3292,043#127
197715#4,4982,134#127
197623#3,1282,127#122
197525#2,9032,090#124
197431#2,4562,319#115
197321#3,1572,357#111
197227#2,6212,418#118
197120#3,2992,949#112
197025#2,8073,127#104
196922#2,8693,055#100
196826#2,4523,129#95
196725#2,4533,332#93
196629#2,2143,575#92
196524#2,4923,801#94
196423#2,6244,124#92
196327#2,3244,184#94
196227#2,3324,346#92
196144#1,7314,620#92
196039#1,8204,968#84
195936#1,8625,061#83
195829#2,0855,157#83
195736#1,8185,733#75
195638#1,7265,971#71
195536#1,7506,187#61
195441#1,5916,402#59
195341#1,5366,662#54
195234#1,6936,974#50
195136#1,5877,120#47
195034#1,6126,963#47
194934#1,6107,183#46
194853#1,2567,421#45
194746#1,3677,807#46
194639#1,4067,317#41
194547#1,1476,606#37
194449#1,1206,975#35
194347#1,1857,631#31
194265#9777,561#31
194166#9047,165#28
194055#9666,822#31
193948#1,0266,561#31
193853#9806,557#30
193769#8256,668#30
193653#9456,447#28
193562#8776,856#27
193460#8816,735#27
193352#9526,726#24
193268#8367,470#23
193182#7447,805#22
193096#7088,594#22
1929100#7008,571#21
192881#7969,313#21
1927105#7069,871#19
1926106#7069,994#19
1925110#70610,618#18
192496#76311,195#18
192381#81411,067#18
192280#81911,207#17
192197#74511,411#17
192066#89711,305#17
191996#71310,613#16
191887#76711,354#16
191780#77310,696#15
191682#75510,656#14
191572#77910,138#14
191459#7538,110#12
191336#8896,391#12
191230#9305,643#12
191130#7933,167#11
191028#8182,899#10
190927#7792,411#11
190827#7502,283#11
190714#1,0572,203#10
190623#7692,112#11
190519#8582,126#11
190414#9752,085#10
190318#8241,922#11
190214#9502,154#10
190117#8081,870#10
190025#7352,606#10
189921#6901,831#10
189816#8612,145#11
189715#8401,994#10
189614#8842,183#10
189515#8382,221#9
189417#7282,278#9
189324#5852,162#11
189224#5702,452#10
189122#5642,049#10
189019#6082,349#9
188918#6092,286#11
188825#5062,596#10
188710#7612,228#8
188614#6202,404#9
188519#4922,406#8
188411#6572,474#9
188312#5682,383#8
188217#4512,579#9
188113#4752,339#8
188011#5302,444#9

Rank among all names of that sex in that year, by the SSA's rule. “under 5 or none” is a year the SSA file does not list: fewer than 5 babies of that sex, possibly none.

Rank in each decade

DecadeGirlsBoys
2020–2025 (so far)#7,751#7
2010s#10,065#33
2000s#11,601#102
1990s#8,448#141
1980s#4,257#132
1970s#3,235#120
1960s#2,302#95
1950s#1,731#61
1940s#1,180#37
1930s#868#26
1920s#752#18
1910s#784#13
1900s#826#11
1890s#694#10
1880s#552#8

Rank among all names of that sex by births summed over the decade.

Years under the floor

Girls: under 5 or none in 2002.

Boys: listed in every year, 1880–2025.

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About this page

Why this name has its own page

These pages are the 5 girls' and 5 boys' names given to the most babies in 2025, the newest year in the SSA file this site is built from. The build picks them from that year's file each time it runs — most births first, ties in alphabetical order, the SSA's own ranking rule — so a new SSA year can change the list. Any other name is on the front page lookup.

Where every number comes from

US Social Security Administration, "Beyond the Top 1000 Names" national data (names.zip): one text file per year of birth, 1880 to 2025, each line a name, a sex and a number of babies. The SSA address is www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip; ssa.gov refuses requests from this site's build server, so the file was taken from the Internet Archive's copy of that address, captured 2026-09-28 (14:33 UTC) and fetched 2026-09-30: web.archive.org/web/20260928143357id_/www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip. SHA-256 cd78e975ed7bb358e018dd62fbe14ced89295e9581c49172ca4eedcb011b3724.

The SSA lists a name for a sex in a year only when at least 5 babies got it, so every total here adds up the listed years only and is a floor on the true number. The file covers people with a Social Security number, so early decades count people who applied for one later in life. Spellings are separate names: this page counts “Henry” exactly as spelled.