Henning
A Germanic name meaning "home ruler". In Poland it barely registers: only about 50 men carry it, and no boy has been given it in years.
Henning Pronunciation
Henning is pronounced KHEN-nyeenk (/ˈxɛnɲink/).
What Henning means
Where Henning comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Henning comes from the Germanic north as a short form of Heinrich, and it holds that name's meaning: home ruler. The roots are haim, home, and ric, ruler or power. Records carry the name from the Middle Ages onward, most often in the Low German towns of the Baltic and across Denmark and Norway.
The spelling stayed while the men changed. Henning von Tresckow, a German officer, helped plan the July 1944 attempt on Hitler's life. Henning Mankell, the Swedish novelist, gave crime fiction the detective Kurt Wallander. Two centuries, one name.
There is no cluster of diminutives here, no softened girl-form or pet ending. Henning stands close to Heinrich yet works as its own word. A Polish child on a class register would wear it plainly, an import from the German and Scandinavian coast. What it says has not moved in a thousand years: home ruler, władca domu.
How many people are named Henning
1 in 426924 men in Poland is named Henning. 50 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5342 among male names.
Henning as a middle name
Henning is a first name for 50 men in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 71/29 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1989th, between Harley (20) and Hoon (20).
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#1987 Halim20
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#1988 Harley20
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#1989 Henning20
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#1990 Hoon20
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#1991 Ilmari20