Henri
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic name from *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'power', meaning 'ruler of the home'; no saint/day given
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑ̃ʁi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Henri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Belgium it is the 50th most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 356(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 843
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Henri itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #250 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 625 (measured from records)
- 1 in 356 (inferred from the name graph)
354,666 named Henry, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Henry in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 2 more and Hënry in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic name from *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'power', meaning 'ruler of the home'; no saint/day given.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Henri 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #128 | 354,666as Henry | 1 in 938 | 354K | Henry | 625 |
| NG Nigeria | #128 | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 687 | — | Henry | 153 |
| PH Philippines | #156 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 859 | — | Henry | 165 |
| FR France | #111 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 843 | 407K | Henri | 389 |
| GB United Kingdom | #138 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 832 | 2.4K | Henry | 338 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 514 | — | Henri | 25 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 35,831as Henry | 1 in 472 | 36K | Hënry | 68 |
| SE Sweden | — | 23,178as Henry | 1 in 440 | 23K | Henry | 91 |
| FI Finland | #353 | 15,649 | 1 in 356 | 17K | Henri | 75 |
| BE Belgium | #50 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 4.2K | Henri | 131 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8,277as Henry | 1 in 616 | 8.3K | — | 10 |
354,666 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Henri is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Germanic Heimric/Heinrich ‘home-ruler’; co-commemorated on 13 Jul. with Joel
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In French, French form of Henry, from Germanic haim “home” + rīc “power, ruler”.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, From Germanic heim + ric, 'home' + 'power'; St Henri.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, French given name; standard form, contrasted with the surname Henry in older spelling.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In French, Origine germanique, sens traditionnel « maison du roi ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Henry Ib. 1068GBKing of England from 1100 to 1135 (1068–1135)
- Henry IIb. 1133FRKing of England from 1154 to 1189
- William Henry Harrisonb. 1773USpresident of the United States in 1841 (1773-1841)
- Henry Dunantb. 1828CHSwiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)
- Henry Draperb. 1837USAmerican physician and astronomer (1837–1882)
- Henry Louis Le Chatelierb. 1850FRFrench chemist (1850–1936)
- Henri Moissanb. 1852FRFrench chemist (1852–1907)
- Groucho Marxb. 1890USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian (1890–1977)
- Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucesterb. 1900GBBritish soldier (1900–1974), Governor-General of Australia from 1945 to 1947
- Graham Greeneb. 1904GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)
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)
Attested in 117 sources across 58 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 407K | #170 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 17K | #125 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 16K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.7K | #3,839 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.3K | #1,445 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 486 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 383 | #3,839 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 95 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #9,063 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 18 | #6,171 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Henri mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic name from *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'power', meaning 'ruler of the home'; no saint/day given. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Henri?
- In the etymology graph, Enrique, Henry and Harry are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Henri?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑ̃ʁi/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Henri a male or female name?
- Henri is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Henri have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 355 thousand people named Henry, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Henri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Henri is densest in Finland — about 1 in 356 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Henri?
- In Finland, the national register counted 15,649 people named Henri, about 1 in 356 residents.
- How common is Henri compared with other names?
- In the United States, Henri is the 128th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/henriThe 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, “Henri” — the 128th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.