# Henri (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/henri/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,987 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,328 / 659 (11% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,388, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 10 | 4,287 |
| 1961 | 6 | 6,094 |
| 1964 | 9 | 4,746 |
| 1965 | 8 | 4,993 |
| 1967 | 6 | 6,296 |
| 1986 | 6 | 9,973 |
| 1993 | 5 | 14,304 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,681 |
| 2015 | 6 | 15,202 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,183 |
| 2018 | 7 | 12,971 |
| 2019 | 9 | 10,799 |
| 2021 | 5 | 16,148 |
| 2022 | 8 | 11,595 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,189 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 96 | 1,602 |
| 2012 | 91 | 1,681 |
| 2013 | 95 | 1,616 |
| 2014 | 98 | 1,601 |
| 2015 | 104 | 1,558 |
| 2016 | 120 | 1,447 |
| 2017 | 113 | 1,491 |
| 2018 | 118 | 1,471 |
| 2019 | 131 | 1,367 |
| 2020 | 103 | 1,581 |
| 2021 | 149 | 1,276 |
| 2022 | 143 | 1,317 |
| 2023 | 129 | 1,419 |
| 2024 | 108 | 1,593 |
| 2025 | 95 | 1,714 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 52 | 638 |
| 2012 | 76 | 498 |
| 2013 | 81 | 475 |
| 2014 | 81 | 485 |
| 2015 | 82 | 482 |
| 2016 | 73 | 531 |
| 2017 | 53 | 661 |
| 2018 | 76 | 511 |
| 2019 | 44 | 740 |
| 2020 | 51 | 668 |
| 2021 | 54 | 672 |
| 2022 | 47 | 714 |
| 2023 | 39 | 827 |
| 2024 | 34 | 924 |
| 2025 | 32 | 953 |

## People named Henri

- Henri Matisse, French artist (1869–1954)
- Henri Bergson, French philosopher (1859–1941)
- Henri Poincaré, French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
- Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist (1852–1908)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
- Henri Barbusse, French author (1873-1935)
- Henri Moissan, French chemist (1852–1907)
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)
- Henri Rousseau, French painter (1844–1910)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (1908–2004)
- Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1854-1943)
- Henri Fayol, French mining engineer and executive, developer a general theory of business administratio

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.