Henrietta

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.

• English:/hɛnˈɹiː.ɛt.ə/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Henrietta, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Bernadette
• Georgiana
• Georgina
• Loretta
• Georgette

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Henrietta is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria

  Also written Hénriéttá

• Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Henriëtta, Henrie͏̈tta

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Henriëtta, Henrie͏̈tta

• Greek given name2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States

  Also written Ενριετα

• Croatian given name10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Henrijeta, Хенријета

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Henrietta 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 English, Feminine form of Henry; used occasionally in early 20th-century Ireland.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In English, Teutonic; feminine form of Henry, ruler of the home/estate

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• Latinate form of French Henriette, a feminine diminutive of Henri, the French form of Henry, Henrietta Maria (1609-69) was the wife of King Charles I, the daughter of Henry IV of France, in whose honour the name was sometimes chosen by gentry families in the 17th century. It enjoyed a revival in the late 19th century. See also Harriet. Pet forms: Hennie, Hettie, Hattie. IIo

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, Henrietta är en latiniserad form av det franska Henriette som är en fransk femininform till Henri (→ Henrik). I den rikssvenska almanackan 22 augusti och i den finlandssvenska 19 januari.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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.

• Henrietta of Englandb. 1644FREnglish princess, duchesse of Orléans (1644-1670)
• Henrietta Swan Leavittb. 1868USAmerican astronomer and human calculator (1868–1921)
• Linda Christianb. 1923MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress (1923–2011)

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).

68 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 36 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Henrietta mean, and where does it come from?

Feminine of Henri, Germanic 'home' + 'power'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.

What are other forms of the name Henrietta?

In the etymology graph, Harriet, Ina and Heike are forms of the same name in other languages; Hettie and Ettie are recorded short or pet forms.

Is Henrietta a male or female name?

Henrietta is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Finland (DVV), among others.

How do you pronounce Henrietta?

In English /hɛnˈɹiː.ɛt.ə/ (Wiktionary).

Which countries have the most people named Henrietta?

Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Henrietta in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henrietta. After it come Netherlands, United States, Hungary and Ghana; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Henrietta most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Henrietta is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 774 people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Henrietta?

In the United States, the national register counted 13,628 people named Henrietta in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.

How common is Henrietta compared with other names?

In Ghana, Henrietta is the 155th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.