Meaning not yet researched.
Henny: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,626 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Henny in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,626 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Henny: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,626 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 66 (2025).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Henny, making it the 2,626th most common girls’ name of the year, up 362 places from #2,988 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 55 girls named Henny in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,626, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 66. For comparison, it was #3,315 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Henny in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 8 babies. In all, 1,114 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 359 babies named Henny.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 468 US girls were named Henny; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Henny ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #373 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Henny in the open dataset we use.
Henny is listed as a nickname for Henrietta.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 46 | #373 | #504 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #594 | #888 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,988 | — | — |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 2020 | 44 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,520 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,699 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,724 | — | — |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,903 | — | — |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,499 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,455 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,233 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,403 | — | — |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,489 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,289 | — | — |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,791 | — | — |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,652 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,118 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,168 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,145 | — | — |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,734 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,601 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,014 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,567 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,439 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,384 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,210 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,355 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,702 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,297 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,045 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,082 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,833 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,660 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,471 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,621 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,941 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,813 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,047 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,440 | — | — |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,726 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,906 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,276 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,484 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,255 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,633 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,626 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,328 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).