Håkon

given name · Latin script

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

Håkon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 99th most common given name. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Old Norse.

rarermore common
  • NONorway≈1 in 615(inferred from the name graph)
  • ISIceland1 in 725
  • DKDenmark1 in 36K

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.

Norway (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,900 people, est.

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 615 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name from Old Norse

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Håkon 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 Håkon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#99≈8,900 est.≈1 in 61549KHåkon76
IS Iceland—4841 in 725484——
SE Sweden—2081 in 49K208Håkon12
DK Denmark—1621 in 36K162——
FI Finland—381 in 147K157Håkon7

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 — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Håkon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian given name51 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian, English, Danish

    Also written Haakon, Hakon, Hákon

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Hákon, Hakon, Häkon

  • Russian surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Norway, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хокон, Якун, Hakon, Haakon, Хакон

31 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)

Håkon 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.

  • In Swedish, Håkon, Haakon och Hakon är norsk-danska variantformer av → Håkan. Namnen har burits av norska kungar. Namnformerna har aldrig varit vanliga i Sverige men är mycket frekventa i Norge. En känd namnbärare är den norske kronprins Haakon (f. 1973). Hakon finns i den rikssvenska almanackan 14 juni.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

800100012001400Haakon the Good, b. 918Haakon Sigurdsson, b. 930Haakon Ericsson, b. 997Haakon Magnusson, b. 1068Haakon II of Norway, b. 1147Haakon III of Norway, b. 1182Haakon IV of Norway, b. 1204Haakon the Young, b. 1232Haakon V of Norway, b. 1270Haakon VI of Norway, b. 1340

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Håkon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—49K#55
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1992377—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1998352—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1997345—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1994344—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1993343—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1996333—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1999332—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1995310—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)1991296—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)2016256—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)2000245—

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 Håkon mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Håkon a male or female name?
Håkon 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 Håkon?
In the etymology graph, Haakon is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Håkon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Håkon in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled håkon.
How common is the name Håkon?
In Iceland, the national register counted 484 people named Håkon in 2026, about 1 in 725 residents.
How common is Håkon compared with other names?
In Norway, Håkon is the 99th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.

What do you want to know about Håkon?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A5kon

The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Håkon” — the 99th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Håkon parses inside a full name →