Hendrika
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hendrika is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 195◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 12K
- IDIndonesia1 in 71K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 621,083 | 98% |
| US United States | 3,911 | 1% |
| ZA South Africa | 2,891 | 1% |
| ID Indonesia | 1,273 | 1% |
| AU Australia | 698 | 1% |
≈629,856 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian247K39%
- Dutch196K31%
- English185K29%
- Indonesian1.5K1%
- German1K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 246,736 | 39% |
| Dutch | 195,613 | 31% |
| English | 184,654 | 29% |
| Indonesian | 1,485 | 1% |
| German | 1,032 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 20 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 21 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 21 |
| 2008 | 21 |
| 2009 | 20 |
| 2010 | 21 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 21 |
| 2013 | 20 |
| 2014 | 19 |
| 2015 | 21 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 23 |
| 2020 | 22 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwenb. 1887NLDutch physicist
- Riek de Raatb. 1918NLnot in their usual nameDutch painter (1918-2018)
- Diet Emanb. 1920NLnot in their usual nameDutch Resistance worker during World War II (1920-2019)
- Kiky Gerritsen-Heinsiusb. 1921NLnot in their usual nameDutch resistance fighter
- Miep Diekmannb. 1925NLnot in their usual nameDutch writer (1925–2017)
- Hendrika Rugerb. 1928NLDutch-Canadian author and publisher (born 1928)
- Henda C. Swartb. 1939ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African mathematician (1939–2016)
- Coosje van Bruggenb. 1942NLnot in their usual nameDutch and American sculptor and painter (1942–2009)
- Rick Nicoletb. 1943NLnot in their usual nameDutch actress (1943-)
- Marga Bultb. 1956NLnot in their usual nameDutch singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 64 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hendrika?
- Our records include 629,856 bearers of Hendrika across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Hendrika have the most bearers?
- Hendrika is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- Is Hendrika a male or female name?
- Hendrika is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hendrikaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hendrika”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.