Héktor

given name · Latin script

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

Héktor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
  • ISIceland1 in 9.2K
  • DKDenmark1 in 15K

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.

Albania (measured from records)

407 people

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hektor in BR Brazil.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Héktor 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 Héktor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania4071 in 7.6K407——
DK Denmark3911 in 15K391——
SE Sweden3841 in 27K384—3
PL Poland3141 in 122K314——
BR Brazil2021 in 1M202Hektor25
IS Iceland381 in 9.2K38——
XK Kosovo≈37 est.≈1 in 52K236——

407 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Héktor is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Hektor

  • Polish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Hektor, Hektōr

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hektor

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Hektor

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Héktor under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Héktor a male or female name?
Héktor 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 Héktor have the most bearers?
In Albania, the national register counted about 407 people named Héktor, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Héktor most common?
Héktor is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Héktor?
In Albania, the national register counted 407 people named Héktor, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.

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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, “Héktor”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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