Henrik

Where Henrik comes from

Henrik hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1828
    Henrik Ibsen born
    Norwegian playwright and theatre director
  2. 1857
    Henrik Pontoppidan born
    Danish writer, Nobel Laureate
  3. 1935
    First appearance
    #3,645 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2018
    Peak, #758
    313 babies named Henrik — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Henrik Ibsen · Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828–1906
  • Henrik Pontoppidan · Danish writer, Nobel Laureate, 1857–1943
  • Henrik Dam · Danish biochemist and physiologist, 1895–1976
  • Henrik Larsson · Swedish association football player and manager and floorball player, born 1971
  • Henrik Wergeland · Norwegian writer, 1808–1845

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.