Hafdís

given name · Latin script

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

/havtis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 455(measured from records)
  • NONorway≈1 in 257K
  • DKDenmark1 in 309K

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.

Iceland (measured from records)

771 people, 2026

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 455 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

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 Hafdis in NO Norway, US United States, DK Denmark and 1 more.

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hafdís 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 Hafdís is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IS Iceland#3407711 in 455771Hafdís39
NO Norway—≈21 est.≈1 in 257K82Hafdis7
US United States—≈20 est.≈1 in 17M—Hafdis13
SE Sweden—201 in 510K20Hafdis7
DK Denmark—191 in 309K19Hafdis6

771 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).

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

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

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Hafdis

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Hafdis

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hafdis

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hafdis

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hafdis

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Hafdis

4 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1970198019902000Hafdís Huld Þrastardóttir, b. 1979Hafdís Sigurðardóttir, b. 1987Hafdís Sigurðardóttir, b. 1989Hafdis Renötudottir, 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)

InformalHi Hafdís,

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 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Hafdís
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026771—
IS IcelandHagstofa — population register names 20232023756#55
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005)2005680#51
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15#6,188
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—13#30,915
IS IcelandHagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021)202110#47
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names———

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

How common is the name Hafdís?
In Iceland, the national register counted 771 people named Hafdís in 2026, about 1 in 455 residents.
How common is Hafdís compared with other names?
In Iceland, Hafdís is the 340th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
How do you pronounce Hafdís?
A machine transcription gives /havtis/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Hafdís a male or female name?
Hafdís is a female 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 Hafdís have the most bearers?
In Iceland, the national register counted about 771 people named Hafdís, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hafdís.
Where is Hafdís most common?
Hafdís is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 455 people carrying it.

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The 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, “Hafdís” — the 340th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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