Hennessy
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 96.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 82 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,568since 1991
Hennessy over time
Rank among girls' names. Hennessy has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #3,833 | 39 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,639 | 66 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,586 | 67 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,015 | 53 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,419 | 74 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #3,436 | 45 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 | #10,744 | 6 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,978 | 57 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,562 | 71 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,446 | 78 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #2,485 | 74 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,704 | 62 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,927 | 54 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,043 | 49 | — | |
| 2002 | #3,461 | 39 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,316 | 41 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #3,738 | 34 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #4,636 | 23 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | — | |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | — | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | — | |
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| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Hennessy! It came in at #13,147, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1992, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Hennessy
- 387 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #3,903)
- 888 spots since 2020 (#3,015 → #3,903)
- 12 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #3,903)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2019 at #2,231 (82 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,468 girls born in 2019 were named Hennessy (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 37.2% of all girls named Hennessy (584) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 120 | #3,970 (1999) | #7,662 |
| 2000s | 558 | #2,446 (2009) | #2,980 |
| 2010s | 584 | #2,231 (2019) | #2,990 |
| 2020s | 306 | #2,586 (2021) | #3,249 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Hennessy in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 375,001 of them was named Hennessy, which outranked 15.0% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).