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Henryk

A Germanic name meaning "home ruler". After years spent near the margins it has climbed back into the country's top 100, and more boys were given it last year than in any year before.

Henryk Pronunciation

Henryk is pronounced KHEN-rihk (/ˈxɛnrɨk/).

Alive in 2025
155,514
Newborns 2025
985
National rank
#94
Next name day
19 January
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What Henryk means

Where Henryk comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

The name Henryk grew from Germanic roots, from Haimirich, joining "home" and "ruler." The short meaning stays close to that old sense: home ruler, władca domu in Polish. This was never about kingdoms first. The rule in question began at the threshold of a household.

Poland carried the name through its own line of dukes and kings named Henryk, and the diminutive Henio softened it for daily use. A boy on a class register signs Henryk, and his grandmother calls him Henio. The variant Henrik travels north and east. The feminine Henryka answers back across the divide. Henryk Sienkiewicz, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905, made the name a fixture on Polish bookshelves.

Short and blunt. Henryk holds its ground. The meaning does not reach for grandeur, only for the smaller authority of a house and the people in it, władca domu.

When Henryk celebrates name day

Henryk appears 10 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 19 January.

Next name day
19 January
Tuesday in 2027
Next one in 131 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Henryk

1 in 137 men in Poland is named Henryk. 155,514 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #94 among male names.

People with the name Henryk 2019 → 2025
155,514 -35,614 since 2019
2020 187,918 -3,210
2021 180,075 -7,843
2022 172,554 -7,521
2023 166,333 -6,221
2024 160,865 -5,468
2025 155,514 -5,351

Henryk's popularity over time

985 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #69 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.

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985 newborns with the name Henryk in 2025
national rank #69 that year

Where Henryk is most popular

Henryk is most popular in Masovian, 38% above the national average (1,345 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+26%) and Lesser Poland (+24%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Subcarpathian, 43% and 41% below average respectively.

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Henryk as a middle name

Henryk is a first name for 155,514 men in Poland and a middle name for another 118,587, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 28th, between Mateusz (121,294) and Maciej (109,293).

As a first name
155,514
As a middle name
118,587
first name 57% middle name 43%
Middle-name ranking men

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