Hennie
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hennie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 5.5K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 6.9K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hennie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Hennie | 80 |
| NL Netherlands | #243 | 3,158 | 1 in 5.5K | 2.5K | Hennie | 89 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,612 | 1 in 3.4K | 5.7K | — | 18 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Hennie | 36 |
| US United States | — | 218 | 1 in 1.5M | 224 | Hennie | 137 |
| SE Sweden | — | 162 | 1 in 63K | 162 | Hennie | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Hennie | 15 |
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); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Hennie 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 Afrikaans, a male given name: diminutive of Hendrik
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, feminine singular of henni
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hennie Dijkstrab. 1912NLDutch association football player (1912-1994)
- Hennie Rossouwb. 1933South African philosopher (1933-2022)
- Hennie Bekkerb. 1934CAZambian-Canadian composer and musician
- Hennie Aucampb. 1934ZAAfrikaans poet/short story writer/cabaretist/academic (1934–2014)
- Hennie van Neeb. 1939NLDutch football player (1939-1996)
- Hennie Kuiperb. 1949NLroad bicycle racer
- Hennie Spijkermanb. 1950NLDutch footballer
- Hennie Stamsnijderb. 1954NLDutch racing cyclist
- Hennie Topb. 1956NLDutch racing cyclist
- Hennie de Romijnb. 1968NLDutch football 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 35 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hennie?
- In the etymology graph, Enzo, Heinz and Hattie are forms of the same name in other languages; Rika and Heintje are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Hennie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Hennie in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hennie.
- Where is Hennie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hennie is densest in Norway — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- Is Hennie a male or female name?
- Hennie is a female 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 Hennie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 3,158 people named Hennie, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Hennie compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hennie is the 243rd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hennie?
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/hennieThe 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, “Hennie” — the 243rd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.