Given name & surname
Henric
“home”·“power”·“ruler”
Henric is a variant of Henry. Henry combines “home” with “power” or “ruler,” giving the sense “ruler of the home.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Henric is a variant of Henry. Henry combines “home” with “power” or “ruler,” giving the sense “ruler of the home.”
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Where it comes from
Henric is a variant of Henry. Henry is an English form of a Continental Germanic name introduced to Britain by the Normans.
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How it developed
Henric is a variant of Henry. The shared background comes through Henry: Henry’s Germanic elements are haim and ric. In England, Henry became the standard everyday form over Harry in the seventeenth century, influenced by Latin Henricus and French Henri.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Henric is a variant of Henry. The history of Henry gives this family its wider story. Henry was borne by eight kings of England, and related forms were used by rulers elsewhere in Europe. That repeated royal use helped give the name a lasting place in several naming traditions.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Henric through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 7 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 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Henric’s family of names
Henric shares a linguistic root with Henry. In Swedish usage, Henric has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Henryk. Henric has a related form in Henry.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 3
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Henric
- Henric Horn af Åminneequestrian (1880-1947)
- Henric SchartauSwedish priest (1757-1825)
- Henric BenzeliusSwedish archbishop (1689-1758)
- Henric HolmbergSwedish actor1946–2026
- Henric SanieleviciRomanian journalist and literary critic, also remembered for his work in anthropology, ethnography, sociology and zoology (1875-1951)
- Henric HöglundSwedish ice hockey playerborn 1977
- Henric de la CourSwedish songwriter, musician and singerborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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