Henrietta

Where Henrietta comes from

Latinate form of French Henriette, derived from the male given name Henry.
— Wiktionary's entry for Henrietta
  • Germanic
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1644
    Henrietta of England born
    English princess, duchesse of Orléans
  2. 1868
    Henrietta Swan Leavitt born
    American astronomer and human calculator
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #106 among girls — 191 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1892
    Peak, #105
    424 babies named Henrietta — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1963
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #728.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt · American astronomer and human calculator, 1868–1921
  • Henrietta of England · English princess, duchesse of Orléans, 1644–1670
  • Henrietta Lacks · American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, 1920–1951
  • Henrietta Szold · American Zionist, 1860–1945
  • Henrietta Ónodi · Hungarian artistic gymnast, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.