# Henryk (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/henryk/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 450 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 450 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 323, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 13,012 |
| 2012 | 15 | 5,813 |
| 2013 | 13 | 6,386 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,793 |
| 2015 | 31 | 3,545 |
| 2016 | 28 | 3,815 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,089 |
| 2018 | 36 | 3,194 |
| 2019 | 38 | 3,120 |
| 2020 | 30 | 3,607 |
| 2021 | 33 | 3,447 |
| 2022 | 35 | 3,368 |
| 2023 | 33 | 3,501 |
| 2024 | 32 | 3,550 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4,307 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 18 | 1,370 |
| 2015 | 16 | 1,511 |
| 2016 | 28 | 1,022 |
| 2017 | 16 | 1,546 |
| 2018 | 27 | 1,040 |
| 2019 | 24 | 1,113 |
| 2020 | 33 | 878 |
| 2021 | 32 | 939 |
| 2022 | 30 | 993 |
| 2023 | 22 | 1,243 |
| 2024 | 29 | 1,025 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,538 |

## People named Henryk

- Henryk IV Probus, Duke of Wrocław, Duke of Wrocław (1282-1290)
- Henryk Broder, German journalist
- Henryk Petrich, boxer
- Henryk Baranowski, 1943-2013 Polish theatre director and actor
- Henryk Średnicki, Amateur boxer from Poland (1955-2016)
- Henryk Mieczyslaw Jagodzinski, bishop
- Henryk Machalica, actor (1930-2003)
- Henryk Mandelbaum, Auschwitz survivor (1922-2008)
- Henryk Bielski, film director
- Jerzy Henryk Lubomirski, Austrian member of Empire parliament (Austria empire) and nobleman
- Henry III the White, Duke of Wrocław
- Heinrich Reffle von Richtenberg, German noble

## 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.