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Henchy

Gender
Girl
Say it
HEN-chee
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#7,883 for girls

Henchy is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

Where does Henchy come from?

Hebrew: probably a Yiddish pet form of Hene, itself from Hannah

Is Henchy a girl's or a boy's name?

Henchy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Henchy in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,883among girls
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Henchy, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

2025 had more girls named Henchy than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Henchy in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1990Busiest: 21 in 20142025
Henchy in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
20249#10,266
20235#15,188
20228#11,225
20216#13,459
20206#13,448
201913#8,134
201811#9,146
20177#12,709
201615#7,599
20156#14,477
201421#5,991
20130–
20129#11,251
20116#14,816
201014#8,267
20097#13,698
200811#10,080
20079#11,626
20067#13,601
20058#11,828
20048#11,617
20039#10,420
20026#13,589
20010–
20005#15,024
19990–
199810#8,579
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19905#12,952

Names like Henchy

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Henchy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/henchy, updated 20 October 2026.