Henny

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Henny: Recorded since 1945, it reached #115 in 1956, and it stood at #173 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
86times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#115highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2004	#4598
2006	#2509
2009	#3936
2010	#4012
2011	#2275
2012	#4838
2013	#3160
2014	#3514
2015	#4103
2016	#5785
2017	#2201
2018	#5666
2019	#2170
2020	#2615
2021	#3961
2022	#3148
2023	#4709
2024	#4843

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 girls in Norway in 67 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #174 among girls in Norway, #4843 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #124 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #115 among girls in Norway, in 1956 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #173 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Henny appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 67 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 1,199 births with the name.

Henny 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.

Henny'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
Norway · Girls	#124 (1945)	#115 (1956)	#173 (2025)	67 of 81	1,199 (1945–2025)	46 (1956)
England and Wales · Girls	#4137 (2002)	#2170 (2019)	#4843 (2024)	19 of 23	116 (2002–2024)	12 (2017)

Henny by decade in Norway · Girls

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 Henny in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	179	5 of 10	36
1950s	285	10 of 10	29
1960s	138	10 of 10	14
1970s	27	5 of 10	5
1980s	23	5 of 10	5
1990s	36	6 of 10	6
2000s	106	10 of 10	11
2010s	248	10 of 10	25
2020s	157	6 of 10	26

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 36 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1955 and 1956, when recorded births rose by 25, from 21 to 46.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Henny appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #115 in Norway in 1956.

Henny'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3148	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3961	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2615	9	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2275	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#173	28	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#174	27	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#182	27	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#150	34	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#179	24	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#252	17	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#150	34	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#245	18	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#283	17	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#175	33	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#268	19	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#183	32	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#198	29	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#203	28	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#280	19	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#269	19	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#219	25	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#343	13	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#310	15	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#349	12	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#348	12	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#576	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#494	6	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#559	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#416	8	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#509	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#513	6	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#504	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#468	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#536	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#548	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#602	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#569	6	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#657	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#650	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#602	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#631	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#516	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#603	4	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#603	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#469	7	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#481	6	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#446	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#460	6	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#300	11	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#276	13	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#252	15	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#270	13	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#217	18	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#249	14	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#177	23	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#201	19	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#211	17	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#166	25	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#158	26	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#115	46	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#184	21	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#129	38	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#152	31	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#194	21	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#149	28	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#143	32	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#154	29	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#145	32	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#150	34	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#132	42	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#124	42	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 67 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #115, first reached in 1956.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 46 births, registered in Norway in 1956.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 57 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

Hennie · #20, 30y
Henning · #46, 81y
Henos · #2160, 13y
Henri · #353, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Clive · #106, 62y
Brita · #101, 62y
Joyce · #144, 62y
Elisabet · #154, 68y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Borghild · #115, 61y
Didrik · #115, 60y
Freddy · #115, 78y
Arnstein · #116, 52y

Henny was ranked #115 in Norway · Girls in 1956. 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.

Henny 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 Henny without appearing here.

Henny moved ahead of

Kristine Compare
In 2016 they stood at #5785 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2201 and #5765.
Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Kristin Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5666 and #5666 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Dianne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2509 and #5061.

Moved ahead of Henny

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #1436.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2615 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3961 and #1785.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2170 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2615 and #1939.
Francis Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3961 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3148 and #2488.

Moved the opposite way to Henny

Francis Compare
Between 2006 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Henny went from #2509 to #4843 while Francis went from #5061 to #2574.
Fiadh Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Henny went from #3160 to #4843 while Fiadh went from #5742 to #374.
Noah Compare
Between 2013 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Henny went from #3160 to #4843 while Noah went from #5742 to #1743.

Moved the same way as Henny

Elizabeth Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Henny went from #124 to #174 and Elizabeth from #341 to #484.
Rita Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Henny went from #124 to #174 and Rita from #116 to #473.
Tone Compare
Between 1945 and 2024 in Norway · Girls, Henny went from #124 to #174 and Tone from #56 to #518.
Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Henny went from #124 to #182 and Ann from #82 to #404.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #115 in Norway in 1956. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Henny

Henny at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Henny across 2 official records

Henny by decade in Norway · Girls

Henny appears in

Popularity data

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Henny at a glance

Henny across 2 official records

Henny by decade in Norway · Girls

Henny appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Henny

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Henny moved ahead of

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