Henrietta is a feminine given name, derived from the male name

Henry Henry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Henry (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters * Henry (surname) * Henry, a stage name of François-Louis Henry (1786–1855), French baritone Arts and entertainmen ...

. The name is an English version of the French Henriette, a female form of Henri. A short version of the name is

Harriet Harriet(t) may refer to: * Harriet (name), a female name ''(includes list of people with the name)'' Places *Harriet, Queensland, rural locality in Australia * Harriet, Arkansas, unincorporated community in the United States * Harriett, Texas, ...

, which was considered the "spoken form" of Henrietta, much as Harry was considered the "spoken form" of

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. All these names are derived from

Henrik Henrik is a male given name of Germanic origin, primarily used in Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Hungary and Slovenia. In Poland, the name is spelt Henryk but pronounced similarly. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Heiki (Estoni ...

, which is ultimately derived from the Germanic name ''Heimiric'', from the word elements ''heim'', or "

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" and ''ric'', meaning "power, ruler." The male name Henry was first used in the

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Normans The Normans (Norman language, Norman: ''Normaunds''; ; ) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norsemen, Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia. The Norse settlements in West Franc ...

Henrietta Maria of France Henrietta Maria of France ( French: ''Henriette Marie''; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. She was ...

, baptized as Henrietta Maria, in

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, but called in French ''Henriette-Marie'', the queen consort of

Charles I of England Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland from 27 March 1625 until Execution of Charles I, his execution in 1649. Charles was born ...

, first inspired wide use of the name in England in the 17th century. In 2006, an authority on given names noted that Henrietta was one of the most "thoroughly

upper-class Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status. Usually, these are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power. According to this view, the upper cla ...

names" in use in England. Henrietta is no longer a widely used name in English-speaking countries, although its shorter form, Harriet, was the 73rd most popular name for baby girls born in England in 2007, and in 2005 Henrietta was the 85th most popular given name for girls born in Hungary, perhaps inspired by the fame of

Henrietta Ónodi Henrietta Ónodi (born May 22, 1974) is a Hungarian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in 1992. After retiring from gymnastics in 1997 she moved to the United States, married American O ...

, a top-ranked Hungarian

gymnast Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ...

. Both Henrietta and Harriet were ranked in the top 1,000 most popular names for girls in the United States during the 1960s. Henrietta was the 446th most common name for females in the United States in the 1990 census.

Royalty

:''Ordered chronologically'' *

(1609–1669), daughter of

Henry IV of France Henry IV (; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry (''le Bon Roi Henri'') or Henry the Great (''Henri le Grand''), was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 16 ...

, wife of

Henrietta of England Henrietta of England (Henrietta Anne Stuart; 16 June 1644 O.S. New_Style.html" ;"title="6 June 1644 New Style">N.S.– 30 June 1670) was the youngest child of King Charles I of England and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. She was Duchess ...

(1644–1670), daughter of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria *

Henrietta FitzJames Henrietta Butler, Viscountess Galmoye, previously Henrietta Waldegrave, Baroness Waldegrave (née Lady Henrietta FitzJames; 1667 – 3 April 1730), was an illegitimate daughter of James Stuart, Duke of York, subsequently King of England, Sc ...

(1667–1730), illegitimate daughter of James II of England * Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797–1829), daughter of Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg

Others

* Henrietta Adler (1868–1950), British Liberal politician * Henrietta Ash Bancroft (1843-1929), American professor and religious leader * Dame Henrietta Barnett (1851–1936), English social reformer and author * Dame Henrietta Barnett (1905–1985), British air force officer *

Henrietta Batson Henrietta Mary Batson ''née'' Blackman (1859–1943) was an English writer whose interest in the countryside and rural people was an important theme in her novels and much of her non-fiction. She often published as Mrs. Stephen Batson, or someti ...

(1859–1943), English writer * Henrietta Beaufort (1778–1865), Anglo-French botanist born in Ireland *

Henrietta Bentinck, Duchess of Portland Henrietta Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (''née'' Scott; 1774 – 24 April 1844) was the wife of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland. Henrietta was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the eldest daughter and the heiress of Major-General ...

(1774–1844), wife of William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland *

Henrietta A. Bingham Henrietta A. Bingham (, Burrington; December 29, 1841 – February 18, 1877) was a 19th-century American writer, editor, and preceptress. She succeeded Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford as the editor of the ''The Universalist and Ladies' Repository, Ladi ...

(1841–1877), American writer * Henrietta Bingham (1901–1968), American journalist, newspaper executive and horse breeder *

Henrietta Buckmaster Henrietta Delancey Henkle (March 10, 1909 – April 26, 1983), better known by her pen name Henrietta Buckmaster, was an activist, journalist, and author best known for writing historical studies and novels. She was also active in the civil right ...

(1909–1983), American journalist and author * Henrietta Baker Chanfrau (1837–1909), American actress * Henrietta Doran-York (born 1962), Minister Plenipotentiary of Sint Maarten * Henrietta H. Fore (born 1948), UNICEF official * Henrietta Garnett (1945–2019), English writer *

Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough Henrietta Godolphin, ''suo jure'' Duchess of Marlborough (19 July 1681 – 24 October 1733) was the daughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general of the army, and Sarah Jennings, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend and business ...

(1681–1733), daughter of the 1st Duke of Marlborough *

Henrietta Hooker Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker (December 12, 1851 – May 13, 1929) was an American botanist and professor at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College). She was the second female doctoral graduate in botany at Syracuse University, whic ...

(1851–1929), American botanist *

Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) Note: Some sources report her birthday as August 2, 1920, vs. August 1, 1920. was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, ...

(1920–1951), American woman who was the source of the

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cell line *

Henrietta Swan Leavitt Henrietta Swan Leavitt (; July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast distances to remote galaxies led to a shift in the understanding of the scale and nature of the universe. ...

(1868–1921), American astronomer * Henrietta Amelia Leeson (1751–1826), English actress * Henrietta Liston (1752–1828), British botanist born in Antigua * Henrietta G. Moore (1844–1940), Universalist minister, educator, temperance activist, suffragist *

Henrietta Moraes Henrietta Moraes (born Audrey Wendy Abbott; 22 May 1931 – 6 January 1999) was a British artists' model and memoirist. During the 1950s and 1960s, she was the muse and inspiration for many artists of the Soho subculture, including Lucian Freu ...

(1931-1999), British artists’ model and memoirist * Henrietta "Hetty" Wilson Athon Morrison (1837–1885), American author from Indiana *

Henrietta Murray, Viscountess of Stormont Henrietta Friederika Murray, Viscountess of Stormont (née Countess Henrietta Friederika von Bünau; 1737–1766) was a German salonnière. Born into a noble family of imperial comital rank, she later married the British ambassador David Murray, ...

(1737–1766), German-British aristocrat and salonnière * Henrietta Barclay Paist (1870–1930), American artist and author * Henrietta Consuelo Sansom, Countess of Quigini Puliga (1847-1938), French writer * Henrietta Skelton (c. 1840–1900), German-born Canadian-American social reformer *

Henrietta Szold Henrietta Szold ( , ; December 21, 1860 – February 13, 1945) was an American-born Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Pal ...

(1860–1945), American Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah * Henrietta Tayler, known as Hetty (1869–1951), London-born Jacobite scholar and First World War nurse * Henrietta Vansittart (1833-1883), English engineer and inventor

Versions of the name

*Endika (

Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...

) *Enrica (

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

) *Enriqueta (

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

) *Erietta (

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

) *Etta ( English) *Etti ( English) *Ettie ( English) *Etty ( English) *Haliaka ( Hawaiian) *Halle ( English) *Hallie ( English) *Hariala ( Hawaiian) *Hariata ( Hawaiian) *Harrieta ( English) *Harriett ( English) *Harrietta ( English) *Harriette ( English) *Harriot ( English) *Harriott ( English) *Hat ( English) *Hatt ( English) *Hatsy ( English) *Hatti ( English) *Hattie ( English) *Hatty ( English) *Heike (

Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

), ( Frisian), (

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

) *Heinrike (

) *Heintje (

) *Hendrika (

) *Hendrikje (

) *Henka (

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

) *Henna ( Finnish) *Henni ( English) *Hennie (

), ( English) *Henny (

), ( English) *Henrieta (

) *Henrietta ( English) *Henriette ( Danish), (

), ( French), (

), ( Norwegian) *Henriikka ( Finnish) *Henrika ( Swedish) *Henrike (

), ( Scandinavian) *Henriqueta ( Portuguese) *Henryka (

) *Hetta ( English) *Hetti ( English) *Hettie ( English) *Hetty ( English) *Jet (

) *Jett (

) *Jetje (

), *Jindřiška (

Czech Czech may refer to: * Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe ** Czech language ** Czechs, the people of the area ** Czech culture ** Czech cuisine * One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus *Czech (surnam ...

) *Rika (

), ( Swedish) *Rike (

) *Riikka ( Finnish) *Yetta ( English) *Yettie ( English) *Yetty ( English)Behind the Name
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*Rosenkrantz, Linda and Satran, Pamela Redmond (2006). ''Beyond Jennifer and Jason, Madison and Montana''. St. Martin's Press. {{given name Feminine given names English given names English feminine given names Henrietta Maria of France

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