Hendrix
Masculine · “son of Hendrik”
Hendrix is given to both — 13,540 boys and 856 girls since 1880. See Hendrix as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Hendrix began as a Dutch and Flemish surname meaning "son of Hendrik" — the same Hendrik that English turned into Henry. It reached American parents by a different road entirely: as the surname of Jimi Hendrix, the guitarist, which is why the name arrives with an electric guitar somewhere behind it. In the mouth it is two crisp syllables ending in that x, familiar from the spelling everyone already knows.
How old is the name Hendrix?
Hendrix first appears in US birth records in 1885 — 140 years ago. The typical Hendrix is a kid of about 5 — this name's wave is very recent. About 13,500 people named Hendrix are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Hendrix most popular?
Hendrix peaked in 2022, reaching #273 nationally. Today it ranks #354, 81 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Heimirich to Hendrix
The story of Hendrix
The Germanic name Heimirich — "home ruler" — spread through medieval Europe as Heinrich in German lands and Hendrik in the Low Countries, and became Henry in English. Dutch and Flemish families then formed surnames from it, writing the patronymic -ks as -x, which gives Hendriks and Hendrix. Those surnames traveled to North America with Dutch settlement and later immigration, and stayed surnames for centuries. Its life as a first name in the United States is recent and traceable to one bearer, the guitarist Jimi Hendrix, whose fame turned a family name into a given one.
Meaning
son of Hendrik — from Germanic "home" plus "ruler"
Hendrik is the Dutch form of Germanic Heimirich, built from heim "home" and ric "ruler, power". The -x ending is a Dutch and Flemish way of writing the patronymic -ks, so Hendrix is literally "Hendrik's son".
How the name formed
- Heimirich
- Heinrich
- Hendrik
- Hendriks
- Hendrix
Related forms: Hendrik · Hendriks · Heinrich · Henry · Henri · Enrique
Pronouncing Hendrix
HEN-driks
Stress on the first syllable. English speakers read it correctly on sight, and the x is pronounced exactly as it looks.
Nicknames for Hendrix
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
- 1885
- Most boys named
- 20221,270 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #273reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −17.4%933 in 2025, from 1,130
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.
Hendrix in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Hendrik in Dutch — related form
- Hendriks in Dutch — spelling variant
- Heinrich in German — related form
- Henry in English — related form
- Henri in French — related form
- Enrique in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Hendrixs among us
people named Hendrix are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 1,831 born in 2025 was named Hendrix
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Quincy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Hendrix's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Quincy climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Quincy's path sketches the road Hendrix is walking now.
Hendrix 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 Hendrix is headed
Hendrix should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Hendrix beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Hendrix in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds for English speakers, with no realistic pronunciation dispute.
- The -x spelling is already widely recognized, so it rarely needs to be defended as an invented form.
- Belongs to the Henry family, one of the longest continuously used name lines in Europe.
- Distinctive in a classroom while still being instantly readable to teachers and strangers.
- Related forms exist across Dutch, German, French and Spanish, giving relatives elsewhere a familiar hook.
- The link to Jimi Hendrix is direct and permanent. Many people will hear it as a tribute and say so, which is charming to some families and tiresome to others.
- Hendricks is a common surname spelling, so expect the -cks version to be written by mistake fairly often.
- Short forms are thin on the ground — none of them is standard, so the full name is likely to be what he is called day to day.
- Because its use as a first name is very recent, nearly everyone who wears it is still young; there is no picture yet of how it sits on a grown man, though Henry's long record suggests the root travels well.
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Frequently asked
- How many Hendrixs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 13,500 people named Hendrix are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Hendrix in 2025?
- Hendrix ranks #354 among US boy names in 2025, with 933 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Hendrix?
- About 1 in every 1,831 US boys born in 2025 was named Hendrix — 933 in all.
- Will my child share the name Hendrix with classmates?
- Hendrix will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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