Haldane

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from the Old English personal name Healfdene, literally half-Dane; or a different form of Howden

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Haldane is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • USUnited States
  • 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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the Old English personal name Healfdene, literally half-Dane; or a different form of Howden

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Haldane is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from an old personal name. Old Norse Halfdanr, Old Danish Halfdan, AngloScandinavian Healfdene, meaning ‘halfDane’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A surname from Old Norse.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, J. B. S., scientist; pers. name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, from ON Halfdanr, ODa Half(f)dan, Anglo-Scand Healfdene ‘half Dane’; first attested Haldein, Haldanus, Halden 1066 DB

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Scottish surname used as a given name

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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)

1700180019002000Robert Haldane, b. 1764Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, b. 1856John Scott Haldane, b. 1860Aylmer Haldane, b. 1862Bert Haldane, b. 1867J. B. S. Haldane, b. 1892Charlotte Haldane, b. 1894Naomi Mitchison, b. 1897F. Duncan M. Haldane, b. 1951Jason Haldane, b. 1971

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)

FormalDear Mr Haldane,
InformalHi Haldane,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Haldane
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020411#54,177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010365#56,073
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000338#56,526
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—14#101,339
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—8#61,914
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Haldane mean, and where does it come from?
from the Old English personal name Healfdene, literally half-Dane; or a different form of Howden Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Haldane?
A machine transcription gives /hɒːɫdejn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Haldane have the most bearers?
Haldane is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haldane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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