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First name · Masculine

Henry

The English form of a Germanic name meaning "home ruler". Still rare in Poland: most people here have never met one, though it's given to more boys now than a decade ago.

Henry Pronunciation

Henry is pronounced KHEN-rih (/ˈxɛnrɨ/).

Alive in 2025
1,100
Newborns 2025
24
National rank
#915
Meaning & Origin

What Henry means

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

Henry comes from the old Germanic name Heimirich, joining heim, meaning home, with ric, meaning ruler. The short meaning has stayed close to that root: home ruler. In Poland the name settled into Henryk, and its plainest everyday form is Henio, the one a child answers to in a school register.

The English took to it early. Eight kings of England bore it, from Henry I to Henry VIII, and the name became one of the most English things a person could be called. That English colour travels with it even now, and yet it crossed easily into Polish.

There is a woman's form too, Henryka. It answers to Henia in daily use. Whatever the spelling, the sense holds from the Germanic root: the one who rules the home.

How many

How many people are named Henry

1 in 19406 men in Poland is named Henry. 1,100 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #915 among male names.

Living Henrys · 2019 → 2025
1,100 +646 since 2019
+47 2020
+76 2021
+104 2022
+123 2023
+136 2024
+160 2025
Trend

Henry's popularity over time

24 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #481 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2007.

24 newborn Henrys in 2025
national rank #481 that year
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Regions

Where Henry is most popular

Henry is most popular in Lower Silesian, 74% above the national average (21 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+72%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+31%). It is least common in Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie, 64% and 60% below average respectively.

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Middle name

Henry as a middle name

Henry is a first name for 1,100 men in Poland and a middle name for another 884, a 55/45 split — almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 240th, between Benjamin (886) and Alejandro (878).

As a first name
1,100
As a middle name
884
first name · 55% middle name · 45%
Middle-name ranking · men

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