Hendrick

#1,923 in 2025Boys' name

Home + king, through Hendrik

Hendrick has been given to 1,664 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #1,923 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 111 recorded.

Babies named Hendrick, 2025

1 in 40,900

Hendrick over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hendrick: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through Hendrik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hendrick means

Hendrick belongs to the name family reached through Hendrick → Hendrik → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Low German Hendrick and Dutch Hendrik, equivalent to Henry.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hendrick (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hendrick is used in English and Dutch.

Hendrick comes through Low German Hendrick and Dutch Hendrik.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hendrik, Henry, Heinrich and *Haimarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,664 boys were recorded with the name Hendrick between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 111 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,565 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,839 in 2020 to #1,923 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,498 in 2015 to #1,923 in 2025.

How common is Hendrick?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 40,900; 81 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 21,100; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #1,923; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 28,370 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hendrick sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hendrick. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hendricks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hendrick was born before 2015 — so the typical Hendrick is around 10 today.

Median birth year: 2015; About 10 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 76.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,612; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (580).

Is Hendrick rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −358; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −84; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: +575; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.62×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 73.0%; Peak was 2024 (111)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,565; 2024

Spellings of Hendrick

Hendrick is not the most common spelling — Kendrick is, with 41.2% against Hendrick's 2.0%.

Kendrick41.2%33,557
Hendrix16.6%13,540
Cedrick7.8%6,342
Dedrick5.5%4,456
Henrik5.2%4,224
Sedrick4.3%3,511
Shedrick3.3%2,675
Kendric3.1%2,530

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hendrick is used

Across 2016–2025, Hendrick was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 34,864 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

15 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 20,000
2Massachusetts1 in 20,000
3Iowa1 in 25,000
4New Jersey1 in 25,000
5Florida1 in 33,333
6New York1 in 33,333
7Texas1 in 33,333
8Washington1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Hendrick around the world

Where Hendrick ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2016–2025
#2,952
in 2025
France
1925–2025
#4,916
in 2025
Canada
1993–2024
#1,071
in 2024
South Australia
1959–1959
#464
in 1959

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hendrick by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #1,923
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 84
Best rank ever: #1,565; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 111 that year
First recorded: 1918
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,664
Count in 2025: 81

Names similar to Hendrick

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Henrick Hendrik Henrique Hendrixx Brodrick Henley Chadrick Domonick Henderson Mavrick Finnick Jerrick Kedrick Kenrick Henrry Hendricks Domenick Henrik Yannick Henning Henson Terrick Warrick Emerick

Sibling names for Hendrick

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Leonor Shoshana Nila Eloisa Denisse Estela Kamilah Isha

For a brother

Evans Gray Leander Lucio Linus Ramsey Wylie Mikael

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