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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 22,987 of them was named Hennessy, which outranked 86.7% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,404Serene75
- #2,404Stori75
- #2,404Valkyrie75
- #2,419Hennessy74
- #2,419Beckett74
- #2,419Connie74
- #2,419Emryn74
- #2,438Amen73
- #2,438Annalisa73
- #2,438Arina73
Tied with 18 names at #2,419; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 302,693 of them was named Hennessy, which outranked 23.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,670Zyen7
- #9,670Zylar7
- #9,670Zylus7
- #10,760Hennessy6
- #10,760Aabid6
- #10,760Aadhiran6
- #10,760Aadyant6
- #12,156Aabir5
- #12,156Aagam5
- #12,156Aakif5
Tied with 1,395 names at #10,760; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.