Henrietta

What Henrietta means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Henrietta yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1918, with 1,411 babies; 65 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Henrietta?

US: Steady: #2810 in 2015, #2645 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #400 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1880, when 191 girls got the name (#106 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 24,727 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,052 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (0.23 per 1,000 girls), MI (0.14 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.09 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Henrietta is #2645 in the US and #478 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Henrietta were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Nicknames

• Etta
• Hettie
• Hetty
• Henia

Listed on Wiktionary under “given name pet forms”.

If you like Henrietta

Girls

• Louisa#694Form of Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*
• Alice#65“noble + character”^*
• Zelda#832Editor’s note Down from #648 in 2015 to #832 in 2025 in the US
• Emmeline#922Editor’s note Down from #810 in 2015 to #922 in 2025 in the US
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Amalia#566“vigor, bravery”^*

For a brother

• Otis#652Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #71 vs #652 in 2025
• Roland#607“fame-land”^*
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Conrad#417“bold, brave + counsel”^*
• Warren#240“river, water”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Henrietta’s. Rank is US 2025.