Hendrik
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Henry
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 34 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/ˈhɛn.drɪk/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Hendrik is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In South Africa it is the 24th most common given name.
- NLNetherlands1 in 81(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 670
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hendrik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81 (inferred from the name graph)
212,880 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
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 from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Henry
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hendrik is read
(measured from records)Hendrik 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.
- German33%
männl. Vom., niederländische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hendrik in English.
- Dutch20%
a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Henry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian9.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hendrik in Indonesian.
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.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Hendrik, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hendrik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #123 | 212,880 | 1 in 81 | 212K | Hendrik | 167 |
| ZA South Africa | #24 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 666 | — | Hendrik | 88 |
| DE Germany | #326 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Hendrik | 234 |
| US United States | — | 6,502as Hendrix | 1 in 51K | 35K | Hendrik | 192 |
| BE Belgium | #559 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 1.4K | Hendrik | 123 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 122 | Hendrik | 29 |
212,880 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)Hendrik is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, a male given name, equivalent to English Henry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Dutch and Scandinavian form of HENRY .
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)- Henry of Flandersb. 1174FRnot in their usual nameEmperor of Constantinople
- William IV, Prince of Orangeb. 1711NLnot in their usual namehereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands (1711-1751)
- Henryk Siemiradzkib. 1843PLnot in their usual namePolish painter (1843–1902)
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentzb. 1853NLDutch physicist (1853–1928)
- Leo Hendrik Baekelandb. 1863BEBelgium American inventor (1863-1944)
- Jan Hendrik Oortb. 1900NLDutch astronomer (1900–1992)
- Hendrik Verwoerdb. 1901ZAPrime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966
- Geert Hofstedeb. 1928NLnot in their usual nameDutch psychologist (1928-2020)
- Johan Cruyffb. 1947NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)
- Toomas Hendrik Ilvesb. 1953EEEstonian politician and diplomat, fourth president of Estonia (born 1953)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)71 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 212K | #10 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 112K | #12 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,770 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 430 | #2,246 |
| NL Netherlands | SVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered) | 2017 | 133 | #120 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 50 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #7,770 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 are other forms of the name Hendrik?
- In the etymology graph, Enrique, Henry and Harry are forms of the same name in other languages; Heiko and Henk are recorded short or pet forms.
- What does the name Hendrik mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Henry Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hendrik a male or female name?
- Hendrik is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- How do you pronounce Hendrik?
- It depends on the language: in German /ˈhɛn.drɪk/ (Wiktionary); in Dutch /ˈɦɛn.drɪk/ (Wiktionary); in Indonesian /hˈɛndrik/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hendrik have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 213 thousand people named Hendrik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hendrik.
- Where is Hendrik most common?
- Hendrik is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 81 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hendrik?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 212,880 people named Hendrik, about 1 in 81 residents.
- How common is Hendrik compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hendrik is the 123rd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hendrik?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hendrikThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hendrik” — the 123rd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.