Henryk
given name · Polish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Henryk is a given name, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: im 2 0. Jh. entlehnter männl. standene Form des heute nicht m ehr ge Vom., polnische Form von.
- PLPoland1 in 223◐
- CZCzechia1 in 46K
- USUnited States1 in 91K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈332K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 148 ●
- 1 in 145 ◐
across 15 countries
recorded for this name
22K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Henrik in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, SK Slovakia and 3 more, Хенрик in FI Finland and Генрік in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
im 2 0. Jh. entlehnter männl. standene Form des heute nicht m ehr ge Vom., polnische Form von
Sources 2
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #80 | 171,727△ | 10K rec. | 1 in 223 | 172K | Henryk | 133 |
| SE Sweden | — | 61,102△ | 222 rec. | 1 in 167 | 61K | Henryk | 24 |
| DK Denmark | — | 40,416 | — | 1 in 145 | 40K | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 35,607△ | 17 rec. | 1 in 156 | 57K | Хенрик | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 17,407△ | 190 rec. | 1 in 314 | 65K | Henryk | 17 |
| US United States | — | 3,669 | 7.3K rec. | 1 in 91K | 3.7K | Henryk | 148 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 1,126 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Генрік | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,047 | 629 rec. | — | 4 | Henryk | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | 705△ | 7 rec. | 1 in 300K | 705 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 339△ | 111 rec. | 1 in 51K | 339 | Henryk | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 337△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 6.2K | 337 | Henrik | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | #812 | 268 | 8 rec. | — | — | Henrik | 22 |
Roughly 172K people in Poland bear this name (about 1 in 223). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Polish924K97%
- English7.4K1%
- German7.1K1%
- French3K1%
- Czech1.4K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Polish | 924,284 | 97% |
| English | 7,428 | 1% |
| German | 7,102 | 1% |
| French | 3,035 | 1% |
| Czech | 1,372 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 15 |
| 1957 | 11 |
| 1958 | 18 |
| 1959 | 13 |
| 1960 | 15 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 12 |
| 1963 | 14 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 11 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1968 | 12 |
| 1969 | 10 |
| 1970 | 4 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1976 | 4 |
| 1978 | 4 |
| 2017 | 9 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 9 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 30 years between 1951–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Henry II the Piousb. 1192PLnot in their usual nameGrand Duke of Silesia (1192-1241), High Duke of Poland
- Henri Wieniawskib. 1835RUnot in their usual nameRussian-Polish musician (1835–1880)
- Henryk Siemiradzkib. 1843PLPolish painter (1843–1902)
- Henryk Sienkiewiczb. 1846PLPolish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)
- Henryk Zygalskib. 1908PLPolish mathematician and cryptologist (1908–1978)
- Henryk Szeryngb. 1918PLPolish-Mexican violinist (1918–1988)
- Henryk Góreckib. 1933PLPolish composer (1933–2010)
- Leszek Balcerowiczb. 1947PLnot in their usual namePolish economist (born 1947)
- Jerzy Dudekb. 1973PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player (born 1973)
- Adam Małyszb. 1977PLnot in their usual namePolish former ski jumper
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 52 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 336 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Henryk?
- We estimate roughly 332 thousand people bear Henryk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Henryk have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 172 thousand people bear Henryk in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled henryk.
- Where is Henryk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Henryk is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 145 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Henryk compared with other names?
- In Poland, Henryk is the 80th most common given name of 66,904 given names recorded there.
- Is Henryk a male or female name?
- Henryk is a male 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.
- What does the name Henryk mean?
- Recorded meaning: im 2 0. Jh. entlehnter männl. standene Form des heute nicht m ehr ge Vom., polnische Form von
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Henryk” — the 80th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.