Henrique
Fewer than 120 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one, and no newborns have taken it this century. Germanic at root, it means "home ruler".
Henrique Pronunciation
What Henrique means
Where Henrique comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Henrique grows from two Germanic pieces. Haim meant home, and rīc meant ruler or power. Together they give the meaning the dictionaries still record: home ruler, in Polish władca domu. The spelling is Portuguese, a cousin of Heinrich, Henry, and Henryk.
History hands the name a clear owner. Infante Dom Henrique, born in 1394, is remembered in English as Henry the Navigator. He paid for voyages down the western coast of Africa and gathered pilots and mapmakers around him at Sagres. He died in 1460, having pushed Portuguese ships past capes that had stopped everyone before.
The word is older than any prince. Before it belonged to explorers it named a role inside a household, the person who held authority over a home. Read it on a Portuguese passport or beside Henryk on a Polish class register, and the same root sits underneath: władca domu.
How many people are named Henrique
1 in 190591 men in Poland is named Henrique. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3213 among male names.
Henrique as a middle name
Henrique is a first name for 112 men in Poland and a middle name for another 208, a 35/65 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 477th, between Norman (209) and Allan (206).
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#475 Marcus209
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#476 Norman209
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#477 Henrique208
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#478 Allan206
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#479 Jason206