Henriette

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in French: French feminine of Henri, from Germanic haim “home” + rīc “power, ruler”

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɑ̃ʁjɛt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Henriette is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 585(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 4K
  • DKDenmark1 in 726

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

29,536 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
241 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 585 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HenrietteLatin(measured from records)
ΕρριετταGreek(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

French feminine of Henri, from Germanic haim “home” + rīc “power, ruler”.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Henriette is read(measured from records)

Henriette is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • French56%

    French feminine of Henri, from Germanic haim “home” + rīc “power, ruler”.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Feminine of Henri, Germanic 'home' + 'power'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    a female given name, masculine equivalent Henri

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Origine germanique, « maison de roi ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • English12%

    French feminine form of Henri; ‘home ruler’

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • German9.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Henriette in German.

  • Danish6.5%

    a female given name; diminutive form Jette

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Henriette counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Henriette is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#35829,5361 in 58529KHenriette96
CM Cameroon#143≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Henriette21
FR France#457≈17,000 est.≈1 in 4K127KHenriette241
CD Congo - Kinshasa#249≈14,000 est.≈1 in 7.1K—Henriette10
DK Denmark—8,0881 in 7268.1K—4
NO Norway#8645,0171 in 1.1K18KHenriette44

29,536 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018), counting the spelling henriëtte. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Henriette is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Henriëtte

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Henriëtte

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Henriëtte, Henrïette, Henrie͏̈tte

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Netherlands, Sweden

    Also written Henriëtte

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Henriëtte, Henriétte

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Netherlands, United States, Norway

    Also written Henriëtte

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Henrietta Maria of France, b. 1609Sophia of Nassau, b. 1836Aletta Jacobs, b. 1854Maria Christina of Austria, b. 1858Princess Henriette of Belgium, b. 1870Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, b. 1883Dora Maar, b. 1907Liliane Bettencourt, b. 1922Andréa Parisy, b. 1935Henriette Reker, b. 1956

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Henriette,Hi Henriette, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 71 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Henriette
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2011127K#2,849
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—18K#252
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—15K#148
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8.1K#87
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20255K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—292#2,285
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)20259—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1961——

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Henriette mean, and where does it come from?
French feminine of Henri, from Germanic haim “home” + rīc “power, ruler”. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
What are other forms of the name Henriette?
In the etymology graph, Harriet, Ina and Heike are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Henriette a male or female name?
Henriette is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Henriette have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Henriette, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henriette.
Where is Henriette most common?
Henriette is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 585 people carrying it.
How do you pronounce Henriette?
A machine transcription gives /ɑ̃ʁjɛt/ (IPA) for French.
How common is the name Henriette?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 29,536 people named Henriette, about 1 in 585 residents.
How common is Henriette compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Henriette is the 358th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Henriette” — the 358th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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