Hallén

surname · Latin script

/hale:n/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hallén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Possibly a shortened form of Dutch van der Hallen, a topographic or habitational name from Middle Dutch halle ‘hair (see Hall).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 6.7K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 20K
  • FIFinland1 in 70K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

1,512 people

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

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 Hallen in US United States, DK Denmark.

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)

Possibly a shortened form of Dutch van der Hallen, a topographic or habitational name from Middle Dutch halle ‘hair (see Hall).

Sources 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hallén 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 Hallén is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#8001,5121 in 6.7K1.5KHallén38
US United States—7021 in 474K702Hallen11
NO Norway—2781 in 20K278Hallén4
FI Finland—801 in 70K80—2
DK Denmark—361 in 163K36Hallen25

1,512 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hallen, Hållén, Hällen, Hallèn

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Hällén, Hållén, Hällen, Hallèn, Hallen

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Sweden, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hallen, Hállen, Hållén

  • a separate surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Norway, India

    Also written Hallen, Hallèn, Hållen

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Hallen, Hållén

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Sweden, Benin

    Also written Hallen, Hållén

18 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)

18001850190019502000Andreas Hallén, b. 1846Harald Hallén, b. 1884Erik G. Hallén, b. 1899Helga Hallén, b. 1911Kerstin Hallén, b. 1922Olle Hallén, b. 1923Berit Hallén, b. 1935Arvid Hallén, b. 1950Jostein Hallén, b. 1958Yngve Hallén, b. 1968

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)

FormalHej ,Dear Hallén, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Hallén
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.5K#670
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—80#15,191
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—44—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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 Hallén mean, and where does it come from?
Possibly a shortened form of Dutch van der Hallen, a topographic or habitational name from Middle Dutch halle ‘hair (see Hall). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Hallén?
A machine transcription gives /hale:n/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Hallén have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Hallén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hallén.
Where is Hallén most common?
Hallén is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hallén?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,512 people named Hallén, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
How common is Hallén compared with other names?
In Sweden, Hallén is the 800th most common surname of 187,334 surnames 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, “Hallén” — the 800th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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