Hendrix is a patronymic surname of Dutch and German origin, meaning ‘son of Hendrik’. This name goes back to the Germanic name Heimirich meaning ‘home ruler’.
Hendrix is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Hendrix isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Hendrix ranks 361. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 5 were named Hendrix. In the entire USA, approximately 9,753 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Hendrix. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Hendrix is a patronymic surname of Dutch and German origin, meaning ‘son of Hendrik’. This name goes back to the Germanic name Heimirich meaning ‘home ruler’.
As a given name,... it has been in more widespread use since the 2010s.
Hendrix is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Hendrix cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #251 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Hendrix, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Hendrix seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hendrix was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
1,328 babies were named Hendrix in 2022 - that's 1 in 128,014 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Hendrix ranked 252 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 Hendrix 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 Hendrix 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 Hendrix, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Nut
Dinosaur
Rocket
Igloo
Xylophone
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hendrix
Hendrix
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
N
D
R
I
X
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
X
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. Hendrix sounds like this:
