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Henryk

#4,306 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Heinrich

Henryk has been given to 450 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #4,306 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Henryk, 2025

1 in 138,000

Henryk over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Henryk: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Heinrich

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Henryk means

Henryk is a form of Heinrich.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Henryk → Heinrich → Heinrich → *Haimarīks. The family’s meaning is “home + king”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements haimaz and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

Henryk is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Heinrich and Henry.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Henryk is pronounced /ˈxɛn.rɘk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 450 boys were recorded with the name Henryk between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,832 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,604 in 2020 to #4,306 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,544 in 2015 to #4,306 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 Henryk?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,306
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Henryk 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Henryk. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Henryks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Henryk was born before 2018 — so the typical Henryk is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
436
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Choose a decade

2010s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (222).

Is Henryk 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
−758
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−702
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−762
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.2%
Peak was 2017 (38)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,832
1917

Spellings of Henryk

Henryk is not the most common spelling — Henry is, with 98.0% against Henryk's 0.06%.

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 Henryk is used

Across 1910–2025, Henryk was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 498,480 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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. Henryk has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Henryk around the world

Where Henryk 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
    2005–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2024
    #619
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2015–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–2018
    #4,288
    in 2018
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #347
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Henryk by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,306
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 702
Best rank ever
#2,832
1917
Peak year
2017
38 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
450
Count in 2025
24

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Sibling names for Henryk

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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