Hendrick
Masculine · “home-ruler”
Hendrick is the Dutch of Henry — home-ruler — and it belonged to the navigator who sailed up the river that now carries his English name.
How old is the name Hendrick?
Hendrick first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Hendrick is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,600 people named Hendrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hendrick most popular?
Hendrick peaked in 2024, reaching #1563 nationally. Today it ranks #1919, 356 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Haimirich to Hendrick
The story of Hendrick
Henry Hudson — Hendrick Hudson in the Dutch records that employed him — sailed into the river in 1609 looking for a passage to Asia, and was set adrift by his own crew two years later in the bay that also carries his name. Dutch settlement brought Hendrick to New Netherland, and it is in current American use.
Meaning
home-ruler
From the Germanic haim, 'home' or 'estate', and ric, 'ruler' or 'power'. The compound describes authority over a household or a domain rather than a kingdom. Dutch made Hendrik and Hendrick from the Latin Henricus. Both elements are ordinary and the reading is undisputed.
How the name formed
- Haimirich
- Henricus
- Hendrick
Related forms: Hendrik · Heinrich · Henry · Hendrik
Pronouncing Hendrick
HEN-drik
Two syllables, stress on the first. Dutch Hendrik says it the same way with a harder final k.
Nicknames for Hendrick
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1918
- Most boys named
- 2024111 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1563reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −27.0%81 in 2025, from 111
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Hendrick in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hendrik in Dutch — spelling variant
- Heinrich in German — related form
- Henry in English — related form
- Hendrik in Afrikaans — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Hendricks among us
people named Hendrick are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 21,087 born in 2025 was named Hendrick
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Hendrick
- #1919
- Hendrick on the 2025 chart
- #797
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Hendrick went to 81 boys in 2025, but Hendrik is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 131, which makes it the 797th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,122 places above the chart.
- Hendrick81
- Hendrik50
About 1 boy in 13,039 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 21,087 for Hendrick itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Aharon test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hendrick's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Aharon climbed just as high around 1990, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Aharon's path sketches the road Hendrick is walking now.
Hendrick sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Hendrick is headed
Hendrick looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Hendrick beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hendrick in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is transparent and the royal record runs back to the Frankish court.
- Hank is available as a short form that came into English from the Dutch.
- A river, a bay and a strait all carry the name of one bearer.
- Hendrik without the c is the standard Dutch spelling.
- Henry is the form English speakers will assume.
- It reads as distinctly Dutch or Afrikaans.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hendricks are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Hendrick are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Hendrick?
- Hendrick is the most-used spelling in US records — 81 of the 131 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Hendrik.
- How popular is the name Hendrick in 2025?
- Hendrick ranks #1919 among US boy names in 2025, with 81 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hendrick?
- About 1 in every 21,087 US boys born in 2025 was named Hendrick — 81 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hendrick with classmates?
- Hendrick will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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