Hákun
given name · Latin script
Hákun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Hákon.
- DKDenmark1 in 534K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 534K (inferred from the name graph)
11 people
Reference-verified
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
- Old NorseHákon(measured from records)
- Old Norsehár“high”(inferred from the name graph)via Hákon
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Old Norse Hákon.
Sources 2
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hákun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | Hákun | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | — |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | 64 | — | 3 |
| IN India | — | — | 25 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | — | 4 | — | — |
11 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
- Hákun Djurhuusb. 1908FOPrime Minister of the Faroe Islands (1908-1987)
- Hákun Djurhuusb. 1961DKDanish businessperson
- Hákun Edmundssonb. 1996FOFaroese association football player
- Hákun West av Teigumb. 2002FOFaroese handball player
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 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 64 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #6,573 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #56,750 |
| FO Faroe Islands | Fólkanavnalistin — official advisory list of given names (Navnanevndin) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Hákun mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Hákon. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Hákun a male or female name?
- Hákun 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 Hákun have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 11 people named Hákun, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hákun.
- Where is Hákun most common?
- Hákun is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 534 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hákun?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 11 people named Hákun, about 1 in 534 thousand residents.
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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%A1kunThe 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, “Hákun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.