Hallgren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. ornamental name formed with hall ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘hair -t- gren ‘branch’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhæɫɡɹɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hallgren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 321K
- BJBenin≈1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
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:
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)
1. ornamental name formed with hall ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘hair -t- gren ‘branch’. 2. (Hallgren); ornamental compound name composed of the elements hdll ‘rock’ -i- gren ‘branch’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hallgren 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Hallgren | 1 |
| SE Sweden | #189 | 3,607 | 1 in 2.8K | 3.6K | Hallgren | 89 |
| BJ Benin | #702 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Hallgren | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,036 | 1 in 321K | 1K | Hallgren | 210 |
| NO Norway | — | 230 | 1 in 24K | 230 | Hallgren | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 128 | 1 in 46K | 128 | Hallgren | 32 |
| FI Finland | — | 109 | 1 in 51K | 109 | — | 4 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Eric Hallgrenb. 1862SESwedish teacher
- Konrad Hallgrenb. 1891SESwedish politician (1891-1962)
- Åke Hallgrenb. 1918SESwedish athletics competitor (1918-2005)
- Bengt Hallgrenb. 1925SEBishop of Härnösand
- Stig Hallgrenb. 1925SESwedish photographer (1925-2014)
- Mats Hallgrenb. 1943SESwedish journalist and song lyricist
- Hanna Hallgrenb. 1972SEresearcher
- Fredrik Hallgrenb. 1973SESwedish actor
- Frida Hallgrenb. 1974SESwedish actress
- Anita HallgrenSESwedish film producer
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.6K | #280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,222 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 999 | #23,657 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 230 | #6,834 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 128 | #4,245 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 109 | #11,934 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 47 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Hallgren come from?
- 1. ornamental name formed with hall ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘hair -t- gren ‘branch’. 2. (Hallgren); ornamental compound name composed of the elements hdll ‘rock’ -i- gren ‘branch’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hallgren?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæɫɡɹɛn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hallgren mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. ornamental name formed with hall ‘stone’, ‘rock’, ‘hair -t- gren ‘branch’.
- In which country does Hallgren have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Hallgren in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hallgren.
- Where is Hallgren most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hallgren is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hallgren?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,607 people named Hallgren, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Hallgren compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Hallgren is the 189th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hallgrenThe 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, “Hallgren” — the 189th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.