Hendrix — #296 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Hendrix

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,605 babies named Hendrix between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hendrix currently holds the #296 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 1,270 babies received it in a single year. Hendrix is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 813 additional births since 2005.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hendrix performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 6,072 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Hendrix shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,479 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Hendrix in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hendrix in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 12,605 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.