Henni

surname · Latin script

Meaning: past participle of hennir

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/eni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Henni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 44K
  • NONorway1 in 105K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,900 people, est.

Sources
42 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

past participle of hennir

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Henni 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.

Where Henni is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria#309≈3,900 est.≈1 in 11KlistedHenni42
FR France—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 44K168Henni2
ID Indonesia—≈450 est.≈1 in 599Klisted——
US United States—≈120 est.≈1 in 2.8MlistedHenni20
MA Morocco—≈83 est.≈1 in 430K—Henni12
ES Spain—781 in 641K78Henni6
NO Norway—521 in 105K402—1
BE Belgium—401 in 293K40—1
FI Finland—391 in 143K1.6K—2

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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the dz-kaggle-names register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Henni is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Algeria, Belgium, United States

    Also written Hënni, Hénni, Hēnnî, Hênnî, Hễnni

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ĥęnnì, Hennį, Hënni

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Algeria, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hénni

42 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Henni 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 German, ) 2Henny: seit dem 19. Jh. vor­ kommender weibl. Vom., Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Maltese, second-person singular imperative of henna

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Faroese, her, dative singular of hon (she)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, dative of hún; (to) her

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In non, dative of hón

    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)

18001850190019502000Johann Martin Henni, b. 1805Marc Henri Henni, b. 1821Géza Henni, b. 1926Miklós Henni, b. 1934Samia Henni, b. 1980Lisa Henni, b. 1982Mohamed Henni, b. 1989

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)

FormalMadame,Dear Ms Henni, (English)
InformalBonjour Henni,Hi Henni, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Henni
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991168—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971162—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961151—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195182—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—78#32,989
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—78#32,674
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—52#25,658
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200840#30,486
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—39#28,149
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Henni mean, and where does it come from?
past participle of hennir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Henni?
A machine transcription gives /eni/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Henni have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Henni in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henni.
How common is the name Henni?
In Spain, the national register counted 78 people named Henni, about 1 in 641 thousand residents.
How common is Henni compared with other names?
In Algeria, Henni is the 309th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Henni” — the 309th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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