Henrik

Henrik is the Nordic Henry, joining the Germanic heim, home, with ric, ruler, to suggest ruler of the home or master of the estate. Norway's greatest literary export, Henrik Ibsen, fixed the name in international theater with A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler, and the Norwegian crown prince Haakon's circle keeps the name in regular royal circulation. Two tight syllables, a crisp central k. It reads thoughtful, architectural, slightly formal, the kind of name that suggests someone who reads before he speaks. Consistently one of Norway's most popular boys' names in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Henrik travels well and wears decades easily.