Høgni
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/høˀni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Høgni is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. In Faroe Islands it is the 36th most common given name.
- FOFaroe Islands≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 99K
- NONorway≈1 in 300K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
59 people
Reference-verified
Faroe Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Høgni 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 | — | 59 | 1 in 99K | 59 | Høgni | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 18 | Høgni | 5 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #36 | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 188 | Høgni | 7 |
59 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- Hogne Hongsetb. 1940NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian author
- Høgni av Heiðib. 1962Faroese poet
- Høgni Hoydalb. 1966DKFaroese politician
- Hogne Galåenb. 1976NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian musician
- Hogne Rundbergb. 1976NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian musician
- Høgni Lisbergb. 1982FOFaroese singer-songwriter
- Høgni Reistrupb. 1984FOFaroese musician
- Høgni Madsenb. 1985FOFaroese footballer
- Høgni Egilstoft Nielsenb. 1997Faroese chess player
- Hogne SkjerpeNOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician
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) | — | 188 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 59 | #2,067 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #20,011 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Høgni?
- A machine transcription gives /høˀni/ (IPA) for Danish.
- Is Høgni a male or female name?
- Høgni 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 Høgni have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 59 people named Høgni, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled høgni.
- How common is the name Høgni?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 59 people named Høgni, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Høgni compared with other names?
- In Faroe Islands, Høgni is the 36th most common given name of 194 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Høgni?
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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%B8gniThe 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, “Høgni” — the 36th most common given name in Faroe Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.