My name

Even though people call me Rik, Hendrik is my full name. I think it is a strongly sounding name, because of the sound the “K” makes at the end of the name. Part of the name actually means “power or Ruler” and the other part means “home”. It was supposedly a popular royal name in Europe in the medieval age. Most of the time when someone says Hendrik, the mean it to tease me, though I don’t feel very embarrassed or angry. Sometimes when people say the name Hendrik it does make me feel powerful, or strong, because no-one ever does say it anyway, and because it comes from my father’s side, going on for about 4 generations. Hendrik is the kind of name that I would think to be said firmly in an office or in a place of extreme seriousness. I always imagine myself when I am grown up shaking someone’s hands while they say it was nice to meet me. I always imagine that I’m going to be like my father, always doing serious business, but that’s what my NAME sounds like. My name is different from what I want to do. I like the meaning of my name, as in, power, but I don’t like the image that my name gives as much. At least a good thing is that there are barely any nicknames for Hendrik, or Rik. The only nickname that I’ve ever heard is ricky. Yet, there is something bad about my name too, threre are many ways to mispronounce my name, of which I’ve heard. Brick, Lik, Ik, and even sometimes Erik. There was a king called Frederik Hendrik III once, which I thought I was named after, but that’s not true. I am actually the only person called Hendrik in the whole ISKL. My parents wanted for me to have an easy name to say universally, so they made up Rik before they even made up Hendrik! So my name is easy to say when you say Rik, but when you say Hendrik, it’s not too easy.