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Henrika

Girls' name

Counterpart of Henrik

Henrika has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1977, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Henrika, 1977

1 in 454,000

Henrika over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henrika: meaning, origin, and history

Counterpart of Henrik

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Henrika means

Henrika is a counterpart of Henrik.

Origin, language, and formation

Henrika is used in Lithuanian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henrik.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Henrika is pronounced [²ˈɣʲɛnʲˑrʲɪkɐ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Henrika between 1971 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1977; its best national rank was #7,715 in 1971.

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 Henrika?

Henrika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1977
1 in 454,000
7 of 3,176,294 births
Among girls only
1 in 219,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1977
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
314,521 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Henrika sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 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 314,521 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henrika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Henrikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henrika was born before 1977 — so the typical Henrika is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Henrika 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (7)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#7,715
1971

Spellings of Henrika

Henrika is not the most common spelling — Erika is, with 92.5% against Henrika's <0.01%.

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.

Henrika around the world

Where Henrika 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
    1924–1936
    #955
    in 1936
  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #644
    in 1963

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Henrika by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,715
1971
Peak year
1977
7 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
1977
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Henrika

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

JanvikaVaamikaIshvikaVyomikaHennleyRidhikaHenreneHenesisHennahHenzleeHenneseyHenrykaHendleyRudvikaSarvikaSastikaThaswikaShrivikaHenslieVanikaKartikaMarnikaHenesseyNirvika

Sibling names for Henrika

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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