Hallén
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/haleːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Hallén is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 1,512 people, counted by Skatteverket. Recorded meaning: Possibly a shortened form of Dutch van der Hallen, a topographic or habitational name from Middle Dutch halle ‘hair (see Hall).
- SESweden1 in 6.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 20K
- FIFinland1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,512 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
How to pronounce Hallén
- Swedish:/haleːn/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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).
Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Hallén is found
(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.
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); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)- Andreas Hallénb. 1846SESwedish romantic composer, conductor and music teacher (1846-1925)
- Harald Hallénb. 1884SESwedish priest (1884–1967)
- Yngve Hallénb. 1968NONorwegian football administrator
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)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
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?
- In Swedish /haleːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hallén?
- 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. After it come United States, Norway, Finland and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hall%C3%A9nThe 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, “Hallén” — ranked 670th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.