Henderson

loc · Latin script

Meaning: ‘Son of Henry’; older form Henryson, with James Henrisson in 1370

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/hɛndɚsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Henderson is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 917(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.3K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

218,393 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
569 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 228 (inferred from the name graph)

Dominica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HendersonLatin(measured from records)
헨더슨Hangul(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘Son of Henry’; older form Henryson, with James Henrisson in 1370. Henderson takes over by mid-16th c.; Fordell family from 1510; also a branch of Clan Gunn.

Sources 1

  • Scottish Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Henderson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Henderson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States218,3931 in 1.5K218KHenderson569
GB United Kingdom≈50,000 est.≈1 in 1.3KlistedHenderson308
CA Canada≈24,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K2Henderson268
AU Australia≈18,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K1Henderson237
BR Brazil≈7,500 est.≈1 in 28K1.9K—5
NZ New Zealand≈5,400 est.≈1 in 917—Henderson154
DM Dominica3261 in 228326—10
KN St. Kitts & Nevis781 in 69078—16
KY Cayman Islands≈59 est.≈1 in 1K—Henderson15

218,393 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Henderson is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hénderson

  • Greek surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Χέντερσον, Χεντερσον

  • Thai surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Laos, Australia

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written เฮนเดอร์สัน, เฮ็นเดอร์สัน, เฮนเดอรสน

72 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Henderson is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, son of Henry; first attested William Henrison 1374 Black.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • patronymic from Hendry, a chiefly Scottish variant of the personal name Hendry 1. Some Scottish families with this name have ancestors whose name was Henryson.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A surname originating as a patronymic.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, ‘son of Hendry’

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In English, Arthur, British labor leader,

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Arthur Henderson, b. 1863Dell Henderson, b. 1883Fletcher Henderson, b. 1897Stephen McKinley Henderson, b. 1949Shirley Henderson, b. 1965Alan Henderson, b. 1972Martin Henderson, b. 1974Jeff Henderson, b. 1989Jordan Henderson, b. 1990Ella Henderson, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 62 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Henderson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010218K#109
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020210K#111
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000210K#101
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.9K#5,224
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#7,976
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.2K#8,393
DM DominicaDominica — Revised List of Electors May 20252025326#41
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020145—
KN St. Kitts & NevisSt Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026202678#106
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202076#7,976
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202550—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Henderson come from?
‘Son of Henry’; older form Henryson, with James Henrisson in 1370. Henderson takes over by mid-16th c.; Fordell family from 1510; also a branch of Clan Gunn. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
In which country does Henderson have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 218 thousand people named Henderson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henderson.
Where is Henderson most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Henderson is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 228 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Henderson?
In the United States, the national register counted 218,393 people named Henderson in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How do you pronounce Henderson?
A machine transcription gives /hɛndɚsən/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Henderson mean?
Recorded meaning: ‘Son of Henry’; older form Henryson, with James Henrisson in 1370.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Henderson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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