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Henrik

#1,060 in 2025Boys' name

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Henrik has been given to 4,224 babies in the U.S. since 1935. In 2025 it ranked #1,060 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 313 recorded.

Babies named Henrik, 2025

1 in 16,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henrik: meaning, origin, and history

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Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Henrik means

Henrik means “home”.

Origin, language, and formation

Henrik is used in Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Slovene and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henry and Heinrich.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Henrik is pronounced /ˈhenrik/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,224 boys were recorded with the name Henrik between 1935 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 313 in 2018; its best national rank was #758 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #896 in 2020 to #1,060 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #842 in 2015 to #1,060 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 Henrik?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,100
206 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,290
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,060
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,156 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Henrik 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,156 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henrik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Henriks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henrik was born before 2017 — so the typical Henrik is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,219
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (2,140).

Is Henrik 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
−140
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−164
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−218
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.8%
Peak was 2018 (313)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#758
2018

Spellings of Henrik

Henrik is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 79.7% against Henrik's 0.44%.

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 Henrik is used

Across 2016–2025, Henrik was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 719 boys, against 1 in 6,772 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

2139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 719
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 826
  3. 3Michigan1 in 1,389
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in 1,818
  5. 5Washington1 in 2,857
  6. 6Colorado1 in 3,333
  7. 7Iowa1 in 3,704
  8. 8Oregon1 in 3,846

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.

Henrik around the world

Where Henrik 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
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2022–2023
    #660
    in 2023
  • France
    1925–2020
    #6,698
    in 2020
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #16
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Henrik

People whose public names include Henrik, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Henrik in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Henrik. Linked forms have their own page here.

EricErikErykHeinHenkEirikEnricEnzioErichHarryHeinzHenryEnricoHaraldHaroldHenricHenrykEnriqueHendricHendrikHenrichHeinrichÈricÉric

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Henrik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,060
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 164
Best rank ever
#758
2018
Peak year
2018
313 that year
First recorded
1935
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,224
Count in 2025
206

Names similar to Henrik

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

HendrikHenriHenleyHenrryHendrixHeneryTarikHensonHenrykDerikHendersonHendrickAndrikMavrikTyrikYerikDerrikArikMaverikHenrickHenokHendryHenriqueHenning

Names with a curve like Henrik

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Henrik, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DashAxlFoxKaseAlistairLochlanJoziahAhmirAxtonJaxxGraysenCastiel

Sibling names for Henrik

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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