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Girl

Henrietta

As a girl's name, Henrietta is understood to mean "Feminine of Henry". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.

EtymologyFeminine of Henry
EtymologyMeaning "home ruler"
Births by decade
1900s
4,514
1910s
10,405
1920s
10,476
1930s
5,823
1940s
5,652
1950s
3,829
1960s
1,779
1970s
660
1980s
318
1990s
223
2000s
144
2010s
435
Peaked in the 1920s · 44,258 total U.S. births since 1900