The Hendriks surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 671 people carried this name — #33,894 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 434,800 people counted. That is up 22% from 552 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Hendriks surname
A surname originating as a patronymic.
From Hendrik + -s (“patronymic suffix”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hendriks» (Dutch), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 1,123 people named Hendriks live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Limburg.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
74 people named Hendriks live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 57 people named Hendriks.
Most of them — 37 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Yvelines.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
53 people named Hendriks are counted in Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Hendriks in American newspapers,
1902–1959.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 12,114 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Hendriks,
with a public archive behind them.
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Anneken Hendriks 1522–1571 -
Wybrand Hendricks 1744–1831 · curator -
Arend Hendriks 1901–1951 · engraver -
Bart Hendriks 1915–1944 · resistance fighter -
Piet Hendriks 1918–2000 · actor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 204 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hendriks.
- Henard 584 · U.S. census
- Henault 913 · U.S. census
- Henck 306 · U.S. census
- Henderson 218,393 · U.S. census
- Hendrick 7,988 · U.S. census
- Hendrickx 300 · U.S. census
- Heng 3,819 · U.S. census
- Hengel 588 · U.S. census
- Henger 153 · U.S. census
- Hengy 154 · U.S. census
- Henin 177 · U.S. census
- Henn 3,743 · U.S. census
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