Hägg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: bird cherry, Prunus padus
Hägg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 433K
- FIFinland1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hägg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,354 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hagg in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands.
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)
bird cherry, Prunus padus
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hägg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #338 | 3,354 | 1 in 3K | 3.4K | Hägg | 47 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,123 | 1 in 5K | 1.1K | Hägg | 15 |
| US United States | — | 769 | 1 in 433K | 866 | Hagg | 183 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Hagg | 60 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hägg | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 145 | 1 in 119K | 145 | Hagg | 17 |
3,354 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Axel Herman Häggb. 1835SESwedish artist (1835-1921)
- Jakob Haigb. 1839SEnot in their usual nameSwedish naval officer and painter (1839-1931)
- Jacob Adolf Häggb. 1850SESwedish composer (1850–1928)
- Gustaf Häggb. 1867SESwedish composer (1867–1925)
- Hilma Gabriella Jahnssonb. 1882FInot in their usual nameFinnish lawyer (1882-1975)
- Gunnar Häggb. 1903SESwedish chemist, crystallographer and professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry, University of Uppsala (1903–1986)
- Gunder Häggb. 1918SESwedish middle and long distance runner (1918-2004)
- Maud Häggb. 1944SESwedish writer
- Lucas Hägg-Johanssonb. 1994SEassociation football player
- Robert Häggb. 1995SESwedish ice 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.4K | #306 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.1K | #1,715 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 445 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Hägg mean, and where does it come from?
- bird cherry, Prunus padus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Hägg have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Hägg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hägg.
- Where is Hägg most common?
- Hägg is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hägg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,354 people named Hägg, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Hägg compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Hägg is the 338th 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/h%C3%A4ggThe 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, “Hägg” — the 338th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.