Håkan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name from Old Norse

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ho:kan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Håkan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Benin it is the 31st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 201(measured from records)
  • TRTürkiye1 in 373
  • BJBenin≈1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (measured from records)

219,990 people, 2025

Sources
171 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 201 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hakan in TR Türkiye, NL Netherlands, BJ Benin.

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)

a male given name from Old Norse

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Håkan 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.

Where Håkan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—219,9901 in 373220KHakan83
SE Sweden#9650,6901 in 20151KHåkan104
BJ Benin#31≈5,900 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Hakan5
FI Finland—1,6461 in 3.4K3KHåkan16
NL Netherlands—1,0581 in 16K1.1KHakan25

219,990 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Håkan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, United States, Sweden

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hakan, H'Akan, Hakán, Häkan, Hãkãn

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Häkan, Hâkan, Hȧkan, Hakan, Hákan

  • a separate given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Türkiye, United States, India

    Also written Hakan, Hãkån, Hakån, Ĥakan

  • Turkish given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Hakan, H'Akan, 'Hakan, হাকান, 'Hâkân

  • Chinese given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden

    Languages: Chinese, Burmese

    Also written Hakan, H'Akan

  • Thai given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Thailand, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Hakan, Haakon, ฮาคาน, โฮกัน, Hokan

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Håkan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Swedish: from the Old Norse personal name Hákon , composed of the elements h horse or high + konr son, descendant. Variant: Hakon (an older form). Cognates: Danish: Hagen. Norwegian: Håkon .

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Håkan the Red, b. 1040Haakon Magnusson, b. 1068Haakon VI of Norway, b. 1340Håkan Nesser, b. 1950Per Gessle, b. 1959Håkan Ericson, b. 1960Håkan Juholt, b. 1962Tobias Linderoth, b. 1979Ola Svensson, b. 1986Gustaf Nilsson, b. 1997

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)

InformalHej Håkan,Hi Håkan, (English)

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.

Official registers attesting Håkan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—51K#76
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200427K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200627K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200527K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200327K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200827K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200727K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200927K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201027K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200227K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200127K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201127K—

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 Håkan mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Håkan have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 220 thousand people named Håkan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hakan.
Where is Håkan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Håkan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 201 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Håkan?
A machine transcription gives /ho:kan/ (IPA) for Swedish.
Is Håkan a male or female name?
Håkan 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.
What are other forms of the name Håkan?
In the etymology graph, Haakon is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Håkan?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 219,990 people named Håkan in 2025, about 1 in 373 residents.
How common is Håkan compared with other names?
In Benin, Håkan is the 31st most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.

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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, “Håkan” — the 31st most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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