Henley

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Henley: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Henley: Recorded since 1998, it reached #330 in 2012, and it stood at #484 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#330highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2014–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2014	#5691
2015	#3615
2016	#3609
2017	#4063
2019	#2458
2020	#3447
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2023	#3218
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 21 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #2901 among boys in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #330 among boys in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Henley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 1,587 births with the name.

Henley across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Henley's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2901 (1998)	#330 (2012)	#484 (2024)	21 of 27	1,587 (1998–2024)	134 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#5691 (2014)	#2458 (2019)	#5891 (2024)	10 of 11	54 (2014–2024)	10 (2019)

Henley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Henley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	244	5 of 10	49
2010sbusiest	976	10 of 10	98
2020s	364	5 of 10	73

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 98 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births rose by 43, from 37 to 80.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Henley appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #330 in England and Wales in 2012.

Henley's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#484	82	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#482	83	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#444	91	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#659	55	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#651	53	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#561	67	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#531	74	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#574	66	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#509	80	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3615	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#377	116	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#423	96	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#420	97	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#330	134	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#338	128	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#351	118	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#374	105	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#450	80	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#742	37	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1347	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #330, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 134 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Hendrix · #302, 21y
Henil · #2707, 11y
Henna · #383, 27y
Hennie · #20, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Ingrida · #327, 23y
Ole-Christian · #324, 25y
Per-Erik · #338, 21y
Tønnes · #338, 17y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aaran · #330, 30y
Cade · #330, 30y
Caine · #330, 29y
Cayla · #330, 24y

Henley was ranked #330 in England and Wales · Boys in 2012. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Henley and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Henley without appearing here.

Henley moved ahead of

Harald Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #2901 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1347 and #4052.
Leif Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2174 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1347 and #4052.
Shannon Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2901 and #1642 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1347 and #4052.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1347 and #1224 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #742 and #2435.

Moved ahead of Henley

Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #1939.
Maren Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3447 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #3519.
Arlo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3447 and #2843.

Moved the opposite way to Henley

Aaron Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 while Aaron went from #31 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 while Adam went from #21 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 while Alan went from #196 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 while Alex went from #46 to #171.

Moved the same way as Henley

Albie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 and Albie from #716 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 and Alfie from #71 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 and Alfred from #174 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Henley went from #2901 to #484 and Archie from #120 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #330 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Henley

Henley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Henley across 2 official records

Henley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Henley appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Henley

Henley and the names beside it

Henley moved ahead of

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Henley at a glance

Henley across 2 official records

Henley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Henley appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Henley

Henley and the names beside it

Henley moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Henley

Moved the opposite way to Henley

Moved the same way as Henley