Hendrik is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hendrik is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Hendrik. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hendrik is #1,963 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hendrik.
In fact, the name Hendrik did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Hendrik seemed to be more popular than ever in 2020. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,641, 84 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Hendrik, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hendrik was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Hendrik a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #1,952 - with a total of 66 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Hendrik in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Hendrik is registered in 11 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Massachusetts. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Hendrik live in Michigan, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 85,005 men and boys in Michigan for their name before you meet one who answers with Hendrik.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Hendrik has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Hendrik and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hendrik, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Nut
Dinosaur
Rocket
Igloo
Koala
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hendrik
Hendrik
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
N
D
R
I
K
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
E
N
D
R
I
K
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hendrik sounds like this:
