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Hendrik

#2,620 in 2025Boys' name

Home + king, through *Haimarīks

Hendrik has been given to 1,387 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #2,620 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Hendrik, 2025

1 in 66,300

Hendrik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hendrik: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through *Haimarīks

Germanic languages and Dutch

What Hendrik means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Hendrik is used in Dutch, Estonian and German. Its origins include Germanic languages and Dutch.

Hendrik comes through Middle Dutch Hendric, Old Dutch *Hēmrīk, Proto-West Germanic *Haimarīk and Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henry, Henri, Heinrich, Henrik and *Haimarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Hendrik is pronounced /ˈɦɛn.drɪk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,387 boys were recorded with the name Hendrik between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,783 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,783 in 2020 to #2,620 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,139 in 2015 to #2,620 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hendrik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,620
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hendrik 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hendrik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hendriks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hendrik was born before 2014 — so the typical Hendrik is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,365
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.6% of all recorded uses (549).

Is Hendrik 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
+106
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−837
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−481
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.8%
Peak was 2020 (85)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,783
2020

Spellings of Hendrik

Hendrik is not the most common spelling — Kendrick is, with 52.2% against Hendrik's 2.2%.

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 Hendrik is used

Across 2016–2025, Hendrik was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 34,794 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 5,882
  2. 2Utah1 in 20,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 25,000
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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.

Hendrik around the world

Where Hendrik 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2019
    #701
    in 2019
  • France
    1927–2022
    #5,955
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,071
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Hendrik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,620
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 837
Best rank ever
#1,783
2020
Peak year
2020
85 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,387
Count in 2025
50

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

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Sibling names for Hendrik

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

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