Henrik

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Henrik: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Henrik: Recorded every year since 1945, it reached #3 in 2018, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
111times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#3highest recorded position
27groupings it qualifies for
39names it appears alongside

What stands out in Henrik's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 54 years running. Names by top-100 run
Appears alongside 39 other names across 5 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships
Shares a published list with another name across 81 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2020
1997	#2859
1998	#2419
2000	#3036
2001	#1949
2002	#2636
2003	#2470
2004	#3651
2005	#2174
2006	#2538
2007	#1885
2008	#3158
2009	#1494
2010	#3332
2011	#2194
2012	#1962
2013	#1617
2014	#2690
2015	#2020
2016	#1704
2017	#1247
2018	#1382
2019	#1113
2020	#1548
2021	#1782
2022	#1314
2023	#1533
2024	#2088

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #10 among boys in Norway, #2088 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #141 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #3 among boys in Norway, in 2018 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #16 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Henrik appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 17,749 births with the name.

Henrik across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Henrik's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#141 (1945)	#3 (2018)	#16 (2025)	81 of 81	17,749 (1945–2025)	523 (1996)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#1113 (2019)	#2088 (2024)	28 of 29	285 (1996–2024)	24 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#779 (2022)	#660 (2023)	#660 (2023)	2 of 2	7 (2022–2023)	4 (2023)

Where the highest position is not the biggest year

Inside a single year a registrar's ranking is its birth counts put in order, so the top of a list is always the name given to the most babies that year. Across years the two separate, because the number of births and the number of names sharing them both change.

In Norway · Boys the name reached its highest position, #3, in 2018, when 337 births were registered with it. More were registered in 1996 — 523 — in a year it ranked #4.

Henrik by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Henrik in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	160	5 of 10	32
1950s	309	10 of 10	31
1960s	545	10 of 10	55
1970s	1,047	10 of 10	105
1980s	2,068	10 of 10	207
1990sbusiest	4,422	10 of 10	442
2000s	4,247	10 of 10	425
2010s	3,342	10 of 10	334
2020s	1,609	6 of 10	268

Across Norway · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 442 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 105, from 359 to 254.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Henrik appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #3 in Norway in 2019.

Henrik's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1533	16	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1782	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1113	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1247	21	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1704	14	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2020	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2690	7	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1617	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2194	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1885	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2538	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2174	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#16	256	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#10	292	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#11	277	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#14	263	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#11	267	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#6	254	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#3	359	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#3	337	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#6	326	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#6	341	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#7	327	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#4	350	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#11	301	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#7	347	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#11	333	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#18	321	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#15	347	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#11	382	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#6	418	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#9	403	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#8	425	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#10	402	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#8	434	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#7	466	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#5	492	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#7	478	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#6	487	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#8	437	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#8	459	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#4	523	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#6	514	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#8	467	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#18	398	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#12	443	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#19	367	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#24	327	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#26	289	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#24	280	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#28	233	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#30	222	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#35	199	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#39	181	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#40	183	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#44	176	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#48	164	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#57	141	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#62	128	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#54	151	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#58	129	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#88	92	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#89	96	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#91	94	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#90	97	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#94	97	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#101	87	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#104	76	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#110	76	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#123	62	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#112	66	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#138	51	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#137	50	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#127	50	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#145	39	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#126	49	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#132	47	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#118	55	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#149	33	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#153	32	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#130	41	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#141	38	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#147	35	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#149	31	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#142	34	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#206	16	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#164	25	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#175	24	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#149	33	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#169	27	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#148	35	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#158	31	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#141	34	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #3, first reached in 2018.

It held a top-100 place in 54 years, 54 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 523 births, registered in Norway in 1996.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 77 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Henrietta · #325, 36y
Henriette · #31, 71y
Henrikke · #267, 34y
Henrique · #770, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kari · #3, 81y
Andreas · #1, 81y
Ingrid · #1, 81y
Kristine · #5, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Anders · #3, 81y
Angela · #3, 74y
Anna · #3, 81y
Arthur · #3, 81y

Comparisons involving Henrik

Existing comparison pages where Henrik and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Henrik in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Henrik vs Aksel
Henrik and Aksel were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #16 and #25.
Henrik · Aksel · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Andreas vs Henrik
Andreas and Henrik were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #96 and #16.
Andreas · Henrik · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Henrik vs Arne
Henrik and Arne were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #16 and #222.
Henrik · Arne · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Henrik and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Oliver vs Henrik
In 2020, Oliver moved ahead of Henrik in Norway · Boys — #4 and #3 the year before became #2 and #6.
Oliver · Henrik · 60 shared years, 1959–2025 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 2020 Norway ranking
William vs Henrik
In 2019, William moved ahead of Henrik in Norway · Boys — #6 and #3 the year before became #2 and #3.
William · Henrik · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 2019 Norway ranking
Emil vs Henrik
In 2007, Emil moved ahead of Henrik in Norway · Boys — #10 and #9 the year before became #3 and #6.
Emil · Henrik · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 2007 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Henrik measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Henrik at its highest position.

Bjørn vs Henrik
Bjørn and Henrik were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #56 and #16.
Bjørn · Henrik · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Henrik vs Christian
Henrik and Christian were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #16 and #131.
Henrik · Christian · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Daniel vs Henrik
Daniel and Henrik were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #66 and #16.
Daniel · Henrik · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Henrik was ranked #3 in Norway · Boys in 2018. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Henrik and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Henrik without appearing here.

Henrik moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1533 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Jade Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3332 and #3332 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2690 and #4632.
Gustav Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2020 and #1786 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #1704 and #3478.
Garry Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3158 and #2276 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #1494 and #3227.

Moved ahead of Henrik

Theodor Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1494 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3332 and #1201.
Tadhg Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1494 and #1749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3332 and #1551.
Hunter Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1878.
Hudson Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2020 and #2863 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2859 and #1761.

Moved the opposite way to Henrik

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Henrik

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 and Arthur from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Henrik went from #141 to #16 and Daniel from #280 to #66.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #3 in Norway in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Henrik

Henrik at a glance

What stands out in Henrik's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Henrik across 3 official records

Where the highest position is not the biggest year

Henrik by decade in Norway · Boys

Henrik appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Henrik

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Henrik

Henrik and the names beside it

Henrik moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Henrik

Moved the opposite way to Henrik

Moved the same way as Henrik

Henrik at a glance

What stands out in Henrik's record

Henrik across 3 official records

Where the highest position is not the biggest year

Henrik by decade in Norway · Boys

Henrik appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Henrik

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Henrik

Henrik and the names beside it

Henrik moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Henrik

Moved the opposite way to Henrik

Moved the same way as Henrik