Henrik
About 4,224 American babies have been named Henrik since 1935, most of them around 2018. In 2025 it ranked 1,060th. About 4,200 Henriks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Henrik
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,224
- Estimated living today
- 4,200
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 758th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,060th
- First recorded
- 1935
How old the living Henriks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,224 babies given the name since 1935, about 4,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 5 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Henriks
- Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)Norwegian playwright and theatre director
- Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829)Norwegian mathematician
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943)Danish writer, Nobel Laureate
- Henrik Dam (1895–1976)Danish biochemist and physiologist
- Henrik Larsson (born 1971)Swedish association football player and manager and floorball player
- Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (1934–2018)Prince consort of Denmark from 1972 to 2018
- Henrik Wergeland (1808–1845)Norwegian writer
- Henrik Kristoffersen (born 1994)Norwegian alpine skier
People named Henrik with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Henrik is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Henrik is most concentrated in Minnesota (10.4×), North Dakota (6.2×), Michigan (4.1×), Washington (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular boys’ names the year Henrik peaked:
Henrik elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Henrik | 17,749 | 4th |
| Denmark boys | Henrik | 1,933 | 20th |
| Sweden boys | Henrik | 1,252 | 52nd |
| Switzerland boys | Henrik | 495 | 230th |
| France boys | Henrik | 355 | 2,844th |
| England and Wales boys | Henrik | 300 | 1,113th |
| Belgium boys | Henrik | 47 | 688th |
| Poland boys | Henrik | 42 birth registrations | 335th |
| Scotland boys | Henrik | 16 | 602nd |
| Ireland boys | Henrik | 7 | 660th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Henrik: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Henrik | 471 | 0.038% | 183rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Henrik | 22 | 0.005% | 496th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Henrik | 2 | 0.003% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Henrik is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.05% of children were given it – 176 of them.
Henrik: rank by region
In 1997, Henrik was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Henrik | 511 | 8 |
In 2024, Henrik was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Henrik | 161 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Henrik by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 97 | 189th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Henrik among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Henrik | 4,287 | 35,629 |
| Finland girls | Henrik | — | 14 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 35,629 who carry it, 4,287 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Henrik against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.