Haugen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Haugen, from the definite singular form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhaʊɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haugen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 199(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 35K
- CACanada≈1 in 37K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199 (inferred from the name graph)
27,492 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Haugen, from the definite singular form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haugen 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 | #14 | 27,492 | 1 in 199 | 27K | Haugen | 122 |
| US United States | — | 9,461 | 1 in 35K | 9.5K | Haugen | 320 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Haugen | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Haugen | 79 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Haugen | 55 |
| SE Sweden | — | 337 | 1 in 30K | 337 | Haugen | 34 |
27,492 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
Haugen 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of haug
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Culpa. v. hoben. Eztire hargatik haugen gabe Jainkoaren aitzinean. Birjin 573. Zuzentasuna kolpatzen du haugenik eztuena haugenduntzat idukitzeak . Ib. 574.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 14 countries.
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
- What does the name Haugen mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Haugen, from the definite singular form of Old Norse haugr ‘hill’, ‘mound’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Haugen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaʊɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Haugen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 27 thousand people named Haugen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haugen.
- Where is Haugen most common?
- Haugen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 199 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Haugen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 27,492 people named Haugen, about 1 in 199 residents.
- How common is Haugen compared with other names?
- In Norway, Haugen is the 14th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haugenThe 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, “Haugen” — the 14th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.