Henk

Boys' name

Home + king, through *Haimarīks

Henk has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1956. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1956, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Henk, 1956

1 in 824,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henk: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through *Haimarīks

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Henk means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Henk is used in Dutch.

Henk comes through Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hendrik and *Haimarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Henk between 1956 and 1956. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1956; its best national rank was #4,173 in 1956.

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 Henk?

Henk had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1956: 1 in 824,000; 5 of 4,122,003 births
Among boys only: 1 in 423,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1956: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 571,432 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Henk 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 1956 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 571,432 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Henks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henk was born before 1956 — so the typical Henk is around 69 today.

Median birth year: 1956; About 69 years old
Biggest decade: 1950s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Henk 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1956 (5)
Years since peak: 69; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,173; 1956

Spellings of Henk

Henk is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 62.9% against Henk's <0.01%.

Henry62.9%768,945
Gene10.4%126,877
Ben7.0%85,349
Kent5.7%69,322
Rene4.2%50,940
Ken2.7%33,013
Hank1.4%16,984
Hans1.3%15,677

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.

Henk around the world

Where Henk 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.

South Australia
1954–1994
#531
in 1994

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Henk by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,173; 1956
Peak year: 1956; 5 that year
First recorded: 1956
Last recorded: 1956
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Henk

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

Henzo Henil Heng Henly Henon Hennry Henrey Henoc Henach Henos Henton Henrri Henrich Henlee Hendon Henock Henric Henny Hence Henrie Hensel Henoch Hendry Henok

Sibling names for Henk

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

Meryl Roxane Teena Cathrine Doretha Sherie Evonne Romona

For a brother

Burt Fritz Leigh Kennith Lonny Eddy Jeffry Danial

Explore around Henk

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