Henricus
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
/ˈheːn.riː.kʉs/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Henricus is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In Aruba it is the 11th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks, probably via Old Frankish or Old High German.
- NLNetherlands1 in 148(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 46Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 148 (inferred from the name graph)
116,626 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Proto-Germanic*Haimarīks(measured from records)
- Old Frankishor(measured from records)
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks, probably via Old Frankish or Old High German.
Cited for this meaning 2
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Henricus 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 | #658 | 116,626 | 1 in 148 | 115K | Henricus | 74 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Henricus | 11 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Henricus | 37 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 385K | — | Henricus | 57 |
| US United States | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Henricus | 76 |
| SE Sweden | — | 87 | 1 in 117K | 87 | Henricus | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 296K | 14 | — | 8 |
| AW Aruba | #11 | — | — | — | Henricus | 2 |
116,626 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)Henricus 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.
In Latin, a male given name from Proto-Germanic, equivalent to English Henry
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)- Christophorus Buys Ballotb. 1817NLnot in their usual nameDutch physicist (*1817 – †1890)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoffb. 1852NLDutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)
- Han van Meegerenb. 1889NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter and art forger (1889-1947)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Henricus?
- In the etymology graph, Enrique, Henry and Harry are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Henricus mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Haimarīks, probably via Old Frankish or Old High German. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Henricus?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /ˈheːn.riː.kʉs/; in Indonesian /hənrit͡ʃus/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Henricus a male or female name?
- Henricus is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Finland (DVV).
- Which countries have the most people named Henricus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 117 thousand people named Henricus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henricus. After it come South Africa, Belgium, Germany and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Henricus most common?
- Henricus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 148 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Henricus?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 116,626 people named Henricus, about 1 in 148 residents.
- How common is Henricus compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Henricus is the 658th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Henricus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/henricusThe 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, “Henricus” — the 658th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.