Hendrik
Hendrik was given to 50 boys in 2025, #2,620 among boys’ names; 1,387 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Hendrik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hendrik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hendrik mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Hendrik is “a male given name from Dutch”
Borrowed from Dutch Hendrik, as a variant of the standard German Heinrich.
/ˈhɛn.drɪk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hendrik?
#2,620 among boys’ names, 2025
Hendrik fell from #2,139 in 2015 to #2,620 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 33.9 to 29.3 per million.
85 babies in 2020, the peak
Hendrik peaked in 2020, when 85 boys were given it, #1,783 among boys’ names. The 50 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,620 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 48 | #2,726 | 27.9 |
| 2023 | 58 | #2,369 | 33.9 |
| 2022 | 66 | #2,201 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,668 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 85 | #1,783 | 49.2 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,139 | 37.3 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,054 | 38.5 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,139 | 34.6 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,017 | 37.4 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 65 | #2,139 | 33.9 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,105 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,221 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,392 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,328 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 26 | #3,929 | 13.6 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,755 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,193 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,823 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,036 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,800 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,862 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,901 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,218 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,795 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,104 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,120 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,089 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,321 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,699 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,283 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,595 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 15 | #4,091 | 7.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,665 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,238 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,503 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,329 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,017 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,707 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,040 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 10 | #4,029 | 5.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,745 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,241 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,635 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,619 | 3.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,604 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,633 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,130 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,980 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,091 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,733 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,931 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,150 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,308 | 2.4 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,477 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,144 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,224 | 2.3 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,857 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,056 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,246 | 3.5 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,520 | 3.2 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,999 | 4.8 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,445 | 4.4 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,088 | 5.3 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,737 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hendrik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hendrik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hendrik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hendrik, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,387 Americans ever recorded as Hendrik. The median Hendrik alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,928 people named Hendrik (4 women and girls, 1,924 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,002 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 57 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 43 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 313 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 786 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hendrik born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 8 | #868 | 2.0× |
| California | 6 | #2,302 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hendrik with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,051 babies since 1880, Hendrik is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 50 of their 131 babies (38%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hendrik
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hendrik and names like it
- Compare Hendrik and HendrickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHendrik peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hendrik since 1910.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Hendrik: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Hendrik.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hendrik alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.