Henri ranks at #805 with 145 entries, registered male. The spelling is the French form of Henry, and on a pet registry it functions as the deliberately Continental pick — owners reaching for Henri are choosing the I-spelling specifically over the standard Henry, signaling a particular European-coded register.
The French-coded register
Henri clusters with Pierre, Louis, Jacques, and Beau in the deliberately-French male pet pocket. The cohort tracks owners who specifically wanted European-language register on a dog and picked the spelling that signaled it most clearly. The naming logic skews design-conscious and pairs comfortably with similarly-French sibling pet names in multi-pet households.
The Henri the existential cat overlay
For a slice of millennial owners, Henri carries an internet-cultural overlay — Henri, le Chat Noir, the viral 2007 YouTube video series featuring a tuxedo cat narrating his existential malaise in faux-French. The cohort skews younger and the cats specifically (a meaningful share of registry Henris are cats) often have the same dramatic-melancholic energy as the original viral character.
Sound and breed lean
Two syllables, front-stressed (ahn-REE in proper French, often anglicized to HEN-ree), with bright vowels and clean recall outside. Pet-owner pronunciation usually settles into the anglicized form for daily use. The name lands disproportionately on small elegant breeds — Poodles, French Bulldogs, Cavaliers, and tuxedo-pattern cats. The human Henri page shows minimal modern American SSA presence.