Name Hank - meaning, origin, numerology

Hank is both a masculine given name and a surname. It is a pet form of the name Henry, influenced by the Dutch name Henk, that is mainly used in the United States. Notable people with the name include:

Given name:

• Hank Aaron (born 1934), Hall of Fame baseball player
• Hank Aguirre (1931-1994), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Hank Allen (born 1940), Major League Baseball outfielder
• Hank Azaria (born 1964), American actor, director, voice actor and comedian best known for his voice work on The Simpsons
• Hank Ballard (1927-2003), rhythm and blues singer and songwriter
• Hank Barham (2002-n/a), Has accomplished nothing in life but is a big bum that lives in Hollywood Californa.
• Hank Bauer (1922-2007), American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager
• Hank Bauer (American football) (born 1954), National Football League running back and television and radio broadcaster
• Hank Blalock (born 1980), Major League Baseball player
• Hank Borowy (1916-2004), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Hank Brown (born 1940), American retired politician and former senator from Colorado
• Hank Burnine (born 1932), American football player
• Hank Cochran (1935-2010), American country music singer and songwriter
• Hank Feldman, Major League Baseball pitcher
• Hank Garland (1930-2004), American studio musician
• Hank Gathers (1967-1990), basketball player
• Hank Goldup (1918-2008), National Hockey League player
• Hank Greenberg (1911-1986), Hall of Fame baseball player
• Hank Johnson (born 1954), U.S. Representative from Georgia
• Hank Jones (1918-2010), American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer
• Hank Ketcham (1920-2001), American cartoonist who created Dennis the Menace
• Hank Kuehne (born 1975), American former professional golfer
• Hank Locklin (1918-2009), American country music singer and songwriter
• Hank Marvin, guitarist
• Hank Mobley (1930–1986), American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist and composer
• Hank Nowak (born 1950), Canadian born National Hockey League player
• Hank Pfister (born 1953), American retired tennis player
• Hank Sauer (1917-2001), Major League Baseball left fielder
• Hank Snow (1914-1999), Canadian-American country music musician and songwriter
• Hank Steinbrenner (born 1957), part-owner of the New York Yankees
• Hank Stram (1923-2005), American National Football League coach
• Hank Thompson (baseball) (1925-1969), baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball
• Hank Thompson (musician) (1925-2007), American country music singer and songwriter
• Hank Williams (1923-1953), country musician
• Hank Williams, Jr. (born 1949), country musician, son of Hank Williams
• Hank Williams III (born 1972), country musician, son of Hank Williams, Jr.
• Hank Worden (1901-1992), American actor
• Hank (dog), a dog rescued by the Milwaukee Brewers named after Hank Aaron

Nickname:

• Hank Green (born 1980), video blogger
• Henrik Sedin, Swedish hockey player
• Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish hockey player
• Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, a nickname of entertainer Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.

Surname:

• Jorge Hank Rhon, former Municipal President of Tijuana
• Carlos Hank González, his father

Fictional characters:

• Hank McCoy, a superhero, The Beast, from the Marvel comic series "X-Men"
• Henry Charles "Hank" Chinaski, alter ego of and character in many stories by Charles Bukowski
• Hank Gannon, from the soap opera One Life to Live
• Hank Hall, a DC Comics character
• Hank Henshaw, DC Comics villain
• Hank, a character from the 2003 film Cheaper by the Dozen
• Hank Hill, protagonist of the TV series King of The Hill also hank barhams brouther
• Hank Jennings, from the TV show Twin Peaks
• Hank Moody, protagonist of the TV series Californication
• Hank or Henry Pym (aka Ant-Man, Giant-Man, Goliath, and Yellowjacket), fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Hank Rearden, fictional character in Atlas Shrugged
• Hank Schrader, from the TV show Breaking Bad
• Hank Venture, fictional character in The Venture Bros.
• Henry "Hank" Lawson, protagonist of TV series Royal Pains
• Hank, main character in the Hank the Cowdog series of children's novels
• Lt. Hank Wade, fictional character in the TV series The Bridge (2013)
• Hank Galliston, protagonist of the TV series Zero Hour (2013)
• Hank Dearborn, protagonist of the TV series Hank (1965)
• Hank Pryor, protagonist of the TV series Hank (2009)
• Hank Brackett, protagonist of the TV series Bearcats! (1971)
• Hank Griffin, fictional character in the TV series Grimm (2011)
• Hank Murphy, fictional character in the TV series Sullivan & Son (2012)
• Hank Yarbo, fictional character in the Canadian Television program Corner Gas (2004 - 2009)
• Hank Thunderman, fictional character in the TV series The Thundermans (2013)

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English: originally a medieval back-formation from Hankin, which is composed of Han (a short form of Jehan John) + the Middle English diminutive suffix -kin. However, the suffix was mistaken for the Anglo-Norman diminutive -in, hence the form Hank, Hank is now sometimes used as an independent given name in America, where it is usually taken as a pet form of Henry. It has more or less died out in Britain.

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