Halsen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. In English, recorded as To predict; promise.
- NONorway1 in 12K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
448 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
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)
definite singular of hals
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Halsen is read(measured from records)
Halsen is one spelling over 2 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.
- English67%
To predict; promise.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian20%
definite singular of hals
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Halsen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 448 | 1 in 12K | 448 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Halsen | 6 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | — | listed | — | — |
448 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Halsen 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.
In German, to jib (shift or swing round, as a sail, boom, yard, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, to embrace, caress
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)
- Odd Halsenb. 1904NONorwegian teacher, writer
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- Where does the name Halsen come from?
- definite singular of hals Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Halsen mean?
- In English, To predict; promise.
- What are other forms of the name Halsen?
- In the etymology graph, Halse is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Halsen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 448 people named Halsen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Halsen most common?
- Halsen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Halsen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 448 people named Halsen, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Halsen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halsenThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Halsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.