Henryka
Around 44,000 Polish women carry it, but it has turned into a heritage name: only a couple of newborn girls last year. The feminine of Henryk, from a Slavic root meaning "home ruler".
Henryka Pronunciation
Henryka is pronounced khen-RIH-kah (/xɛnˈrɨka/).
What Henryka means
Where Henryka comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Henryka is the feminine of Henryk, and both share one root. That root carries the old sense of "home ruler," władczyni domu, a woman with charge over her own house. The name took Slavic form in Poland and held it.
It answers a small family of cousins. Henryk stands in Polish registers, Henrik in Nordic and Hungarian ones, and Henryka replies to them in the feminine. Among relatives a Henryk often turns into Henio, the softest ending the name allows, while the girls' side keeps its own fond shortenings nearby.
Read a class register and the full name sits there with formal weight. The diminutives shrug that off by recess. What none of the forms give up is the meaning underneath them: władczyni domu, home ruler.
When Henryka celebrates name day
Henryka appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 21 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Henryka
1 in 505 women in Poland is named Henryka. 44,645 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #203 among female names.
Henryka's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1593 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2024. Still the #203 name among living women, even as it slips to #1593 among newborns.
Henryka as a middle name
Henryka is a first name for 44,645 women in Poland and a middle name for another 24,728, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 76th, between Daria (24,957) and Franciszka (24,600).
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#74 Cecylia25,726
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#75 Daria24,957
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#76 Henryka24,728
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#77 Franciszka24,600
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#78 Bronisława24,310