Hendriks

surname · Latin script

Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Hendrik (see Hen’RY 1)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɦɛndrɪks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hendriks is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 586(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 8.4K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 9.5K

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

29,492 people, 2007

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 586 (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic from the personal name Hendrik (see Hen’RY 1).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hendriks 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.

Where Hendriks is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#2029,4921 in 58629KHendriks162
ZA South Africa#965≈6,000 est.≈1 in 9.5K—Hendriks32
BE Belgium#7431,3921 in 8.4K1.4KHendriks70
DE Germany—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 72KlistedHendriks90
US United States—6711 in 496K758Hendriks178
AU Australia—≈560 est.≈1 in 46K—Hendriks96
FI Finland—821 in 68K82—5

29,492 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-1 register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hendriks is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Hendrix, Hendricks, Хендрикс, Héndrix

  • Russian surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Hendricks, Hendrix, Хендрикс, Hendrickx, Hendryx

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hendriks is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, a surname originating as a patronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1700180019002000Wybrand Hendricks, b. 1744Jan Hendriks, b. 1928Wim Hendriks, b. 1930Jackie Hendriks, b. 1933Johannes Willibrordus Maria Hendriks, b. 1954Maurits Hendriks, b. 1961Heiko Hendriks, b. 1966Prevail, b. 1975Kaj Hendriks, b. 1987Liam Hendriks, b. 1989

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)

FormalGeachte heer/mevrouw Hendriks,Dear Hendriks, (English)
InformalGeachte heer/mevrouw Hendriks,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Hendriks
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200729K#11
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—1.4K#792
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081.4K#852
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020758#32,512
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010671#33,894
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000552#37,835
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—82#14,871
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—28—
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Hendriks mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from the personal name Hendrik (see Hen’RY 1). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hendriks?
A machine transcription gives /ɦɛndrɪks/ (IPA) for Dutch.
In which country does Hendriks have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 29 thousand people named Hendriks, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hendriks.
Where is Hendriks most common?
Hendriks is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 586 people carrying it.
How common is the name Hendriks?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 29,492 people named Hendriks in 2007, about 1 in 586 residents.
How common is Hendriks compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Hendriks is the 20th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hendriks” — the 20th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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