# Henk (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/henk/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 5 | 4,175 |

## People named Henk

- Henk Timmer, Dutch association football player (born 1971)
- Henk ten Cate, Dutch association football player and manager
- Henk Groot, Dutch footballer (1938–2022)
- Henk Grol, Dutch judoka
- Henk Duut, Dutch association football player and manager
- Henk Fraser, Dutch footballer and manager (born 1966)
- Henk Badings, Dutch composer born in Java
- Henk Sneevliet, 20th-century Dutch communist politician (1883–1942)
- Henk Rogers, Dutch computer programmer
- Henk Pellikaan, Dutch footballer (1910-1999)
- Henk Norel, Dutch basketball player (born 1987)
- Henk Cornelisse, Dutch cyclist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.