Hallum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Hallam, South Yorkshire or Derbyshire
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæɫəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hallum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 187K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 37K
- DKDenmark1 in 44K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
1,782 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Hallam, South Yorkshire or Derbyshire
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hallum 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,782 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Hallum | 235 |
| KE Kenya | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Hallum | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Hallum | 67 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 383K | — | Hallum | 4 |
| NO Norway | 146 | 1 in 37K | 146 | Hallum | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 133 | 1 in 44K | 133 | Hallum | 36 |
| IS Iceland | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Hallum | 1 |
1,782 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hallum is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of three farmsteads so named in southeastern Norway, from either the dative plural of Old Norse hgll ‘slope’ or Old Norse Hallheimr, a compound of hallr ‘slope’ -I- heimr ‘farmstead’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, accusative singular of hallus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Malmfrid Hovsveen Hallumb. 1979NONorwegian actor and composer
- Jett Wayneb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican amateur pornographic actor, bodybuilder, personal trainer, adult and fitness model
- Dennis HopelessUSnot in their usual nameAmerican comics writer
- Jørgen HallumDanish film director
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 15 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,427 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,535 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 146 | #10,711 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 133 | #4,084 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Hallum mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Hallam, South Yorkshire or Derbyshire Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hallum?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæɫəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hallum have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Hallum, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hallum.
- Where is Hallum most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hallum is densest in Norway — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hallum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,782 people named Hallum in 2010, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hallumThe 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, “Hallum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.