Henrik
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Henrik is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name. In Danish, recorded as a male given name, equivalent to English Henry.
- DKDenmark1 in 145(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 156
- SESweden1 in 167
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- 1 in 145 (inferred from the name graph)
61,102 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Henrik is read(measured from records)
Henrik is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish47%
a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
männl. Vom., niederdeutsch-friesi sche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Swedish12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Henrik in Swedish.
- English8.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Henrik in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Henrik 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #30 | 61,102 | 1 in 167 | 61K | Henrik | 173 |
| DK Denmark | #4 | 40,416 | 1 in 145 | 40K | Henrik | 224 |
| FI Finland | #185 | 35,620 | 1 in 156 | 57K | Henrik | 88 |
| BJ Benin | #5 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | — | Henrik | 8 |
| DE Germany | #500 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Henrik | 213 |
| NO Norway | #31 | 17,407 | 1 in 314 | 65K | Henrik | 147 |
61,102 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Henrik is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Low German, Scandinavian, and Hungarian form of HENRY . It has enjoyed great popularity in recent years, especially in Denmark. Pet forms: Low German: Heiko, Henning. Danish: Henning .
as a word
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)
- Niels Henrik Abelb. 1802NONorwegian mathematician (1802–1829)
- Henrik Ibsenb. 1828NONorwegian playwright and theatre director (1828–1906)
- Henrik Pontoppidanb. 1857DKDanish writer, Nobel Laureate
- Niels Bohrb. 1885DKnot in their usual nameDanish physicist (1885–1962)
- Henrik Damb. 1895DKDanish biochemist and physiologist (1895-1976)
- Alvar Aaltob. 1898FInot in their usual nameFinnish architect and designer (1898–1976)
- Mauno Koivistob. 1923FInot in their usual namePresident of Finland (1923–2017)
- Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmarkb. 1934FRPrince consort of Denmark from 1972 to 2018
- Frederik Xb. 1968FRnot in their usual nameKing of Denmark since 2024
- Henrik Larssonb. 1971SESwedish association football player and manager and floorball player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 65K | #22 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 61K | #59 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57K | #31 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 40K | #6 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 36K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 31K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 17K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 256 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 1994 | 189 | #41 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #20,659 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 13 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Henrik mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Henry Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Henrik have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 61 thousand people named Henrik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henrik.
- Where is Henrik most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Henrik is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 145 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- What are other forms of the name Henrik?
- In the etymology graph, Enrique, Henry and Harry are forms of the same name in other languages; Heinz and Heiner are recorded short or pet forms.
- Is Henrik a male or female name?
- Henrik is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Henrik?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 61,102 people named Henrik, about 1 in 167 residents.
- How common is Henrik compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Henrik is the 30th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Henrik?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/henrikThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Henrik” — the 30th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.