Name profile

Henrietta

Latinate form of Henriette.

PronunciationEnglish /ˌhɛn.ɹi.ˈɛt.ə/; Hungarian /ˈhɛn.riʲ.ɛt.tɒ/; Finnish /ˈhen.ri.et.tɑ/
Usage languagesDutch, English, Finnish, Hungarian, Swedish
US rank (2025)#2,645

Meaning and history

Henrietta is the Latinate form of Henriette. It was introduced to England by Henriette Marie, the wife of the 17th-century English king Charles I. Henriette was also Anglicized as Harriet, a form that was initially more popular.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 11 births, rank #9,901
2007: 17 births, rank #7,394
2008: 17 births, rank #7,408
2009: 19 births, rank #6,811
2010: 26 births, rank #5,247
20112011: 34 births, rank #4,244
2012: 46 births, rank #3,464
2013: 65 births, rank #2,681
2014: 75 births, rank #2,412
2015: 62 births, rank #2,810
20162016: 66 births, rank #2,643
2017: 63 births, rank #2,713
2018: 65 births, rank #2,647
2019: 79 births, rank #2,285
2020: 72 births, rank #2,416
20212021: 85 births, rank #2,186
2022: 82 births, rank #2,277
2023: 56 births, rank #2,975
2024: 89 births, rank #2,134
20252025: 65 births, rank #2,645

Henrietta moved from #961 to #980 for girls between 1967 and 1968. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 1,411 births.