Given name
Henryk
“home”·“power”·“ruler”
Henryk is a variant of Henry. Henry combines “home” with “power” or “ruler,” giving the sense “ruler of the home.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Henryk is a variant of Henry. Henry combines “home” with “power” or “ruler,” giving the sense “ruler of the home.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Henryk is a variant of Henry. Henry is an English form of a Continental Germanic name introduced to Britain by the Normans.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Henryk 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 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Henryk 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
Henryk through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 450
- 450 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 38 babies
- 2025
- 24
- #4,307 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −8%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 24 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,307 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 7.6% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,367 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Henryk’s family of names
In Polish usage, Henryk has a diminutive in HENIEK. Henryk shares a linguistic root with Henry. In Polish usage, Henryk has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Enrique.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Henryk has relatives in 19 languages.
31 related names in 19 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 50
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Ericequivalent
- Erikequivalent
- EnriqueSpanish
- Harryequivalent
- Haroldequivalent
- HenriFrench
- HendrikSwedish
- HenriquePortuguese
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- EnricoItalian
- HeinrichGerman, Swedish
- Haraldequivalent
- Erichequivalent
- Eirikequivalent
- Erykequivalent
- Hendricequivalent
- Henrichequivalent
- Henkequivalent
- Heinequivalent
- Henrykafeminine form · Polish
- HenricSwedish
- HeinzGerman
- EnricCatalan
- Éricequivalent
- Hendricusequivalent
- Henkleequivalent
- Henkeequivalent
- Andrinequivalent
- Eiríkurequivalent
- Ericusequivalent
- Hennekeequivalent
- Hinrichequivalent
- Hynekequivalent
- Hinnerkequivalent
- ГенрикRussian
- ΕρρίκοςGreek
- HenricoPortuguese
- Henrikascognate · Lithuanian
- JindřichCzech
- Hinrikequivalent
- Èricequivalent
- Henrihequivalent
- Hynkiwym
- ГенрихRussian
- AnrijsLatvian
- HenricusLatin
- IntalikGreenlandic
- ГенрыкBelarusian
- EndikaBasque
- EndrikeBasque
- HenrikeBasque
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Henryk
- Henryk SienkiewiczPolish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate (1846–1916)
- Janusz KorczakPolish-Jewish educator and physician (1878–1942)
- Henryk GóreckiPolish composer (1933–2010)
- Henryk WieniawskiRussian-Polish musician (1835–1880)
- Henryk SiemiradzkiPolish painter (1843–1902)
- Henryk SzeryngPolish-Mexican violinist (1918–1988)
- Henry the BeardedHigh Duke of Poland1165–1238
- Henry II the PiousGrand Duke of Silesia (1192-1241), High Duke of Poland1191–1241
- Henryk KasperczakPolish football player and managerborn 1946
Characters named Henryk: Henryk Batuta hoax (Polish Wikipedia article on a fake person for whom a street was apparently named).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Henryk, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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