Hekla
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Icelandic: to crochet
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɛhkla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hekla is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Iceland.
- ISIceland
- SESweden
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
to crochet
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Hekla is read(measured from records)
Hekla is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Icelandic47%
to crochet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English22%
A stratovolcano in the south of Iceland.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hekla in French.
- Danish5.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hekla in Danish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hekla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Aktīvs vulkāns Islandes dienvidu daļā, 1491 m vjl., kopš 1104. g. notikuši >20 lieli izvirdumi; viduslaiku teiksmās - vieni no vārtiem uz elli un raganu pulcēšanās vieta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hekla Palmadottirb. 1988ISIcelandic association football player
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 558 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 503 | #94 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #3,086 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #14,923 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #22,218 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021) | 2021 | 21 | #11 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #30,783 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 15 | — |
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
- What does the name Hekla mean, and where does it come from?
- to crochet Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hekla?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛhkla/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Hekla a male or female name?
- Hekla 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 Hekla have the most bearers?
- Hekla is most frequently recorded in Iceland.
What do you want to know about Hekla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heklaThe 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, “Hekla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.