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The name Henry is of Germanic origin, and means ruler of the home. The table below indicates the number of times the name Henry has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Henry**
Use of the Name Henry for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
581,463	153,126	62,494	30,251	16,887	7,283	3,843

The table below indicates the number of times the name Henry has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Henry**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	9	2,444	529	11
1881	8	2,340	475	13
1882	9	2,579	451	17
1883	8	2,383	569	12
1884	9	2,473	657	11
1885	8	2,405	492	19
1886	9	2,404	621	14
1887	8	2,228	764	10
1888	10	2,596	506	25
1889	11	2,286	609	18
1890	9	2,349	608	19
1891	10	2,049	564	22
1892	10	2,453	570	24
1893	11	2,162	585	24
1894	9	2,278	728	17
1895	9	2,221	838	15
1896	10	2,183	884	14
1897	10	1,994	840	15
1898	11	2,146	861	16
1899	10	1,831	690	21
1900	10	2,607	735	25
1901	10	1,869	808	17
1902	10	2,154	951	14
1903	11	1,923	824	18
1904	10	2,086	975	14
1905	11	2,125	859	19
1906	11	2,108	769	23
1907	10	2,202
1908	11	2,282	751	27
1909	11	2,408	778	27
1910	11	2,895	834	27
1911	11	3,160	793	30
1912	12	5,635	929	30
1913	12	6,384	888	36
1914	12	8,100	751	59
1915	14	10,136	783	71
1916	14	10,658	745	83
1917	15	10,690	777	79
1918	16	11,377	765	87
1919	16	10,626	711	97
1920	17	11,301	886	67
1921	17	11,402	745	96
1922	17	11,225	817	80
1923	18	11,061	820	80
1924	18	11,182	757	97
1925	18	10,606	700	111
1926	19	9,957	716	104
1927	19	9,856	705	107
1928	21	9,301	800	80
1929	21	8,545	698	101
1930	22	8,566	706	96
1931	22	7,786	749	80
1932	23	7,460	837	68
1933	24	6,708	951	52
1934	27	6,736	872	61
1935	26	6,855	877	62
1936	28	6,429	945	53
1937	30	6,664	836	68
1938	30	6,564	968	54
1939	31	6,554
1940	31	6,813	973	54
1941	29	7,145	903	66
1942	31	7,582
1943	31	7,578
1944	35	6,942
1945	37	6,582
1946	41	7,294
1947	45	7,809
1948	46	7,381
1949	46	7,159
1950	47	6,975
1951	47	7,079
1952	50	6,979
1953	55	6,637
1954	59	6,395
1955	61	6,192
1956	72	5,936
1957	75	5,741
1958	83	5,144
1959	83	5,059
1960	84	4,963
1961	91	4,613
1962	92	4,349
1963	94	4,185
1964	92	4,122
1965	93	3,804
1966	92	3,577
1967	93	3,327
1968	95	3,127
1969	101	3,047
1970	104	3,113
1971	112	2,934
1972	117	2,423
1973	111	2,354
1974	115	2,322
1975	124	2,075
1976	123	2,120
1977	126	2,131
1978	127	2,036
1979	138	1,938
1980	135	2,056
1981	126	2,183
1982	135	2,066
1983	136	1,941
1984	135	2,019
1985	137	2,054
1986	140	1,974
1987	138	2,075
1988	140	2,064
1989	142	2,157
1990	138	2,230
1991	145	2,245
1992	141	2,322
1993	137	2,470
1994	146	2,387
1995	136	2,514
1996	139	2,542
1997	139	2,631
1998	136	2,773
1999	130	2,904
2000	126	3,108
2001	123	3,180
2002	115	3,316
2003	116	3,440
2004	110	3,843
Totals:		581,463		2,757

During the last 125 years, parents have used Henry as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name.

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