Hákon
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hauːkɔn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hákon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Of debated meaning; possibly from Old Norse hár (“high”) or Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“horse”) and Old Norse konr (“descendant”).
- NONorway1 in 1.9Kas Haakon(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 728Kas Haakon
- ISIceland1 in 725
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hákon itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 725 (inferred from the name graph)
2,881 named Haakon, 2025
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Haakon in NO Norway, US United States, SE Sweden and 1 more and Hakon in DK Denmark, IS Iceland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Of debated meaning; possibly from Old Norse hár (“high”) or Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“horse”) and Old Norse konr (“descendant”).
Sources 2
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hákon 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #138 | 2,881as Haakon | 1 in 1.9K | 49K | Haakon | 111 |
| GH Ghana | #647 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Haakon | 6 |
| IS Iceland | #724 | 484 | 1 in 725 | 484 | Hakon | 39 |
| US United States | — | 457as Haakon | 1 in 728K | 457 | Haakon | 110 |
| SE Sweden | — | 208 | 1 in 49K | 208 | Haakon | 12 |
| DK Denmark | #875 | 162 | 1 in 36K | 162 | Hakon | 46 |
2,881 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hákon Leifssonb. 1958ISIcelandic actor, conductor, composer, and French horn player
- Hákon Daði Styrmissonb. 1997Icelandic handball player
- Hákon Valdimarssonb. 2001ISIcelandic association football player (born 2001)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 484 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 379 | #101 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 14 | #5,425 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #37,228 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hákon mean, and where does it come from?
- Of debated meaning; possibly from Old Norse hár (“high”) or Proto-Germanic *hanhaz (“horse”) and Old Norse konr (“descendant”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Hákon?
- In the etymology graph, Haakon is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hákon?
- A machine transcription gives /hauːkɔn/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Hákon a male or female name?
- Hákon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hákon have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Haakon, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hákon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hákon is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 725 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hákon?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 484 people named Hákon in 2026, about 1 in 725 residents.
- How common is Hákon compared with other names?
- In Norway, Hákon is the 138th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hákon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A1konThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hákon” — the 138th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.