Hendrickson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelhng of Dutch Hendriksen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Hendrickson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 44th most common surname.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 154(measured from records)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 1.3K
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 2.5Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 456 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154 (inferred from the name graph)
30,259 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Americanized spelhng of Dutch Hendriksen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hendrickson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 30,259 | 1 in 11K | 30K | Hendrickson | 456 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Hendrickson | 111 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Hendrickson | 131 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Hendrickson | 60 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Hendrickson | 28 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 349 | 1 in 154 | 401 | — | 17 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 80 | 1 in 1.3K | 80 | — | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #44 | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Hendrickson | 2 |
30,259 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; The page provides a list of the 50 most common surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, published by Apellidos del mundo.; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hendrickson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic from Hendrick.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Waino Edward Hendricksonb. 1896USAmerican Republican politician, the final Governor of the Territory of Alaska (1896-1983)
- Robert C. Hendricksonb. 1898USAmerican politician (1898–1964)
- Wayne Hendricksonb. 1941USAmerican biophysicist
- Robert Hendricksonb. 1944USAmerican film director, screenwriter and producer (1944-2016)
- Sue Hendricksonb. 1949USAmerican paleontologist and archeologist
- Nancy Hendricksonb. 1950USAmerican actress
- Ezra Hendricksonb. 1972VCSaint Vincent and the Grenadines footballer and manager
- Mark Hendricksonb. 1974USAmerican sportsperson, basketball player and baseball player
- Elizabeth Hendricksonb. 1979USAmerican actress
- Sarah Hendricksonb. 1994USAmerican ski jumper
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 30K | #1,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 29K | #1,084 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 29K | #1,177 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 349 | #24 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 80 | #182 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hendrickson mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelhng of Dutch Hendriksen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hendrickson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Hendrickson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hendrickson.
- Where is Hendrickson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hendrickson is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 154 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hendrickson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 30,259 people named Hendrickson in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Hendrickson compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Hendrickson is the 44th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hendricksonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hendrickson” — the 44th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.