Hilsen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: greeting, salutation, salute
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɪɫsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hilsen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 21K(measured from records)
- SESweden≈1 in 1.8M
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
264 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
greeting, salutation, salute
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hilsen 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 | 264 | 1 in 21K | 264 | Hilsen | 23 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 129 | Hilsen | 19 |
| SE Sweden | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Hilsen | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | Hilsen | 8 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
264 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Hilsen 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 Danish, greeting (acknowledgement of a persons presence or arrival)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Patkules muiža, kas atradās Madonas apriņķa Patkules pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Nils Hilsenb. 1794NONorwegian politician
- Frøydis Hilsenb. 1959NONorwegian race walker
- Geir Hilsenb. 1965NONorwegian musician
- Kristian HilsenNONorwegian photographer
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 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 264 | #5,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 129 | #123,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 113 | #147,221 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #262,393 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #81,350 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Hilsen mean, and where does it come from?
- greeting, salutation, salute Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hilsen?
- A machine transcription gives /hɪɫsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hilsen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 264 people named Hilsen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hilsen.
- Where is Hilsen most common?
- Hilsen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hilsen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 264 people named Hilsen, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hilsen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hilsenThe 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, “Hilsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.