Henny
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A diminutive of the female given name Henrietta (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/hɛ.niː/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Henny is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country: 5,244 people, counted by the Meertens NVB.
- DKDenmark1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.3K
- NONorway1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
5,244 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Henny
- Dutch:/hɛ.niː/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a diminutive of the female given names Henriette or Johanna
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Henny is read
(measured from records)Henny is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Henny in Indonesian.
- English17%
A diminutive of the female given name Henrietta.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Henny in Dutch.
- German6.2%
a diminutive of the female given names Henriette or Johanna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Henny in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Henny counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
5,244 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Henny is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Henny är ursprungligen en smekform till → Henrika och → Henrietta.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
French form of German Hennig.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Hennig.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, a diminutive of the female given names Henrika or Henrietta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Henny Portenb. 1890DEGerman actress and film producer (1890–1960)
- Henny Youngmanb. 1906USAmerican comedian and actor (1906-1998)
- Henny Emanb. 1948NLAruban politician (1948–2025)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)59 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Henny?
- In the etymology graph, Enzo, Heinz and Hattie are forms of the same name in other languages; Rika and Heintje are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Henny a male or female name?
- Henny is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), Norway (SSB), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- Where does the name Henny come from?
- a diminutive of the female given names Henriette or Johanna Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Henny?
- In Dutch /hɛ.niː/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Henny mean?
- In English, A diminutive of the female given name Henrietta.
- Which countries have the most people named Henny?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Henny, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henny. After it come Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Norway; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Henny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Henny is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Henny?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,244 people named Henny, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Henny compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Henny is the 226th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Henny?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hennyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Henny” — ranked 480th in the Netherlands (Meertens NVB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.