Hennie

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Hennie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Afrikaans, a male given name: diminutive of Hendrik

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, feminine singular of henni

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 32 years between 1882–1956. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Hennie Dijkstrab. 1912NLDutch association football player (1912-1994)
• Hennie Rossouwb. 1933South African philosopher (1933-2022)
• Hennie Bekkerb. 1934CAZambian-Canadian composer and musician
• Hennie Aucampb. 1934ZAAfrikaans poet/short story writer/cabaretist/academic (1934–2014)
• Hennie van Neeb. 1939NLDutch football player (1939-1996)
• Hennie Kuiperb. 1949NLroad bicycle racer
• Hennie Spijkermanb. 1950NLDutch footballer
• Hennie Stamsnijderb. 1954NLDutch racing cyclist
• Hennie Topb. 1956NLDutch racing cyclist
• Hennie de Romijnb. 1968NLDutch football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 266 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hennie?

We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Hennie (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Hennie have the most bearers?

Hennie is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled hennie.

Where is Hennie most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hennie is densest in Norway — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.

How common is Hennie compared with other names?

In the Netherlands, Hennie is the 790th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.

Is Hennie a male or female name?

Hennie 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.