Henric

Boys' name

Possibly home + king, through Henricus

Henric has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2024, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Henric, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henric: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly home + king, through Henricus

Latin

What Henric means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Henric is used in English and Romanian. Its origins include Latin.

Henric comes through Latin Henricus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henry, Henricus and *Haimarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 boys were recorded with the name Henric between 2019 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,271 in 2024.

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.

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How common is Henric?

Henric had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 478,000; 7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 246,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 331,009 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Henric 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henric. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Henrics were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henric was born before 2023 — so the typical Henric is around 2 today.

Median birth year: 2023; About 2 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 79.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 24; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 79.2% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Henric 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 2024 (7)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,271; 2024

Spellings of Henric

Henric is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 50.8% against Henric's <0.01%.

Eric50.8%888,891
Henry43.9%768,945
Cedric2.4%42,104
Hendrix0.77%13,540
Henri0.30%5,328
Enrico0.27%4,767
Deric0.27%4,744
Henrik0.24%4,224

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.

Henric around the world

Where Henric 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.

France
1960–1978
#1,990
in 1978

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Henric 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: #10,271; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 7 that year
First recorded: 2019
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 24
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Henric

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

Hendric Hendon Henock Henos Alyric Henrie Hensel Henlee Henoch Hendry Hendrex Aymeric Henton Henrri Roric Sihtric Aedric Henach Landric Eadric Hensley Henoc Aydric Leoric

Sibling names for Henric

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

Noah Alianna Xochitl Leonor Elina Malka Eleni Emerie

For a brother

Jeremias Bjorn Kylo Evans Shimon Rio Rome Shlomo

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