Henrietta is a female given name. It comes from the male given name "Henry". Henrietta is the English form of the French name "Henriette". The short version of this name is "Harriet". In some English-speaking areas, Henrietta is not used as much as it used to be. "Harriet", however, is popular for certain countries. Both "Henrietta" and "Harriet" were most popular in the 1960s in United States. Henrietta itself ranked 446th in popularity in the 1990 census.