Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.
1918 is the peak year for Henderson, with 83 births. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. It reaches the top 1,000 in 57 years of the record.
In 2025 it ranked #2,604 with 50 births. Compared with 2015, births are up 52%. It slipped 526 places against the previous year.
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.
How many people are named Henderson?
An estimated 2,000 living Americans are called Henderson. SSA has recorded 4,293 births under the name since 1880.
This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is
multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table.
How the estimate works.
How old is the average Henderson?
Half of living Hendersons are older than 36, half younger. The 2020s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Henderson a early 20th-century name.
Your Henderson
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.
Where Henderson is most common
Georgia uses the name 1.6× as often as the country as a whole.
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Henderson is over-represented, 2016–2025.
The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
