Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Henk isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Henk through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1956
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 172 as a first name in 2020; 1,024 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Henk’s family of names
In Dutch usage, Henk is a diminutive of Hendrik. In Dutch usage, Henk has a conventional equivalent in the English form Henry. In Dutch usage, Henk has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Enrique.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Henk has relatives in 9 languages.
12 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 42
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- HenryEnglish
- Ericequivalent
- Hankequivalent
- Erikequivalent
- EnriqueSpanish
- Harryequivalent
- Haroldequivalent
- Henrikequivalent
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- HenriFrench
- HenriquePortuguese
- EnricoItalian
- Henrykequivalent
- Haraldequivalent
- Erichequivalent
- Eirikequivalent
- Erykequivalent
- Heinequivalent
- Enricequivalent
- Hendricequivalent
- Henrichequivalent
- Heinzequivalent
- Ericusequivalent
- Hennekeequivalent
- Hinrichequivalent
- Hynekequivalent
- Hankeequivalent
- Hinnerkequivalent
- Henricusequivalent
- ΕρρίκοςGreek
- HendrigoPortuguese
- HenricoPortuguese
- JindřichCzech
- Hinrikequivalent
- Henrikasequivalent
- Èricequivalent
- Henrihequivalent
- Hendricusequivalent
- Éricequivalent
- Henkeequivalent
- Henkleequivalent
- Andrinequivalent
- Eiríkurequivalent
People named Henk
- Henk TimmerDutch association football player (born 1971)
- Henk ten CateDutch association football player and managerborn 1954
- Henk GrolDutch judokaborn 1985
- Henk Chin A SenPresident of Suriname (1934–1999)
- Henk GrootDutch footballer (1938–2022)
- Henk DuutDutch association football player and managerborn 1964
- Henk FraserDutch footballer and manager (born 1966)
- Henk BadingsDutch composer born in Java1907–1987
- Henk RogersDutch computer programmerborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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