Henri

given name · French · Latin script

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

Henri is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 45th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Germanic name from *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'power', meaning 'ruler of the home'; no saint/day given.

rarermore common
  • TTTrinidad & Tobago1 in 35◐
  • FRFrance1 in 167
  • MQMartinique1 in 306

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈889K ●

across 11 countries

#352 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
563 ●

6.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 167 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

HenryLatin · English●4.7M records
ᲰენრიGeorgian · Georgian●156 records
앙리Hangul · Korean●5 records
ՀենրիArmenian · Armenian●4 records
ΧένριGreek · Greek●2 records
ҲенриCyrillic · Tajik●0 records

Locally spelled Henry in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 15 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Germanic name from *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'power', meaning 'ruler of the home'; no saint/day given.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Henri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#45407,025385K rec.1 in 167407KHenri372
US United States#123353,8635.1M rec.1 in 940354KHenry563
GB United Kingdom#142240,961272K rec.—2.4KHenry262
AU Australia#144147,525127K rec.—1.2KHenry274
PH Philippines#176110,503107K rec.——Henry157
CA Canada#124100,340115K rec.—160Henry205
VE Venezuela#27193,1322.1K rec.——Henry26
TT Trinidad & Tobago#968,636840 rec.——Henry33
DE Germany#33759,90058K rec.—1Henry226
NG Nigeria#12549,08066K rec.——Henry150
BR Brazil—39,067△2.4K rec.1 in 5.4K39KHenri120
EC Ecuador#29535,831△945 rec.1 in 47236KHenry73

Roughly 407K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 167). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French1.8M82%
  • Portuguese112K5%
  • English80K4%
  • Finnish72K3%
  • Dutch28K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French1,823,86782%
Portuguese111,9115%
English80,1844%
Finnish71,5333%
Dutch27,9151%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Henri is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name174K records spelled Henri24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, United States, Brazil, Germany

    Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Henri', Henrí, Hënri, Hênri, Hëńŕï

  • Finnish given name77K records spelled Henri4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Latvia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hënrï, Hëńŕï

  • Indonesian given name7.8K records spelled Henri4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malagasy, Malay

    Also written Heṉri

  • a separate given name6.9K records spelled Henri4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Switzerland, Netherlands

    Also written Henrí, Hénri, Henrī

  • Hindi given name4.5K records spelled Henri3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Henrí

  • Albanian given name4.1K records spelled Henri5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy

    Also written Héñrí, Hêñrî, Henrì, Hêñrí

  • Russian given name3.2K records spelled Henri92 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Генрих, Генріх, Анри, Генри, Henrikh

92 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●

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.

Over time●

050100150190019502000149 · 2021

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Henri in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1885–2025
Yearrecords
18855
18876
18888
18968
19005
19047
19055
19067
19076
19096
191114
191216
191317
191418
191525
191631
191731
191837
191928
192032
192130
192223
192328
192432
192529
192637
192729
192836
192933
193039
193133
193224
193324
193435
193524
193619
193720
193829
193922
194025
194124
194230
194332
194425
194526
194632
194725
194827
194923
195046
195133
195231
195339
195441
195533
195646
195732
195834
195925
196042
196139
196226
196341
196430
196532
196638
196739
196821
196926
197037
197132
197227
197332
197432
197524
197620
197729
197821
197935
198034
198128
198228
198330
198431
198534
198628
198731
198831
198942
199032
199135
199237
199346
199439
199535
199652
199761
199861
199951
200049
200159
200262
200366
200477
200568
200675
200773
200881
200991
201065
201196
201291
201395
201498
2015104
2016120
2017113
2018118
2019131
2020103
2021149
2022143
2023129
2024108
202595

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 125 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Henry I, b. 1068Henry II, b. 1133William Henry Harrison, b. 1773Henry Dunant, b. 1828Henry Draper, b. 1837Henry Louis Le Chatelier, b. 1850Henri Moissan, b. 1852Groucho Marx, b. 1890Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, b. 1900Graham Greene, b. 1904
  • Henry Ib. 1068GBnot in their usual nameKing of England from 1100 to 1135 (1068–1135)
  • Henry IIb. 1133FRnot in their usual nameKing of England from 1154 to 1189
  • William Henry Harrisonb. 1773USnot in their usual namepresident of the United States in 1841 (1773-1841)
  • Henry Dunantb. 1828CHnot in their usual nameSwiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross (1828-1910)
  • Henry Draperb. 1837USnot in their usual nameAmerican physician and astronomer (1837–1882)
  • Henry Louis Le Chatelierb. 1850FRnot in their usual nameFrench chemist (1850–1936)
  • Henri Moissanb. 1852FRFrench chemist (1852–1907)
  • Groucho Marxb. 1890USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian (1890–1977)
  • Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucesterb. 1900GBnot in their usual nameBritish 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 114 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Henri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024407K#170
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—17K#249
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—16K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202214K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—14K#1,334
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20206.9K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—5.5K#654
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.7K#3,839
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—4.2K#3,764
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—2.1K#82
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.3K#1,445
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—1.2K#391

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 2026-09-12 data build · 1,312 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Henri?
We estimate roughly 889 thousand people bear Henri (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Henri have the most bearers?
We estimate about 407 thousand people bear Henri in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled henri.
How common is Henri compared with other names?
In France, Henri is the 45th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Henri mean?
Recorded meaning: Germanic name from *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'power', meaning 'ruler of the home'; no saint/day given.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 45th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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