Hjalte
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jalˀd̥ə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hjalte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Hjalti, possibly meaning "a Shetlander", from Hjaltland (“Shetland”). Cognate with Icelandic Hjalti.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- FIFinland1 in 398K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,034 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hjälte in SE Sweden.
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)
From Old Norse Hjalti, possibly meaning "a Shetlander", from Hjaltland (“Shetland”). Cognate with Icelandic Hjalti.
Sources 2
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hjalte 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #790 | 3,034 | 1 in 1.9K | 3K | Hjalte | 73 |
| FI Finland | — | 14 | 1 in 398K | 71 | Hjalte | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 44 | Hjälte | 18 |
| US United States | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 40M | — | Hjalte | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
3,034 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the babynamen-king-2020 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hjalte Skovgaardb. 1899DKDanish painter, sculptor and illustrator (1899-1967)
- Hjalte Rasmussenb. 1940DKLaw Professor (1940–2012)
- Hjalte Tinb. 1953DKDanish writer
- Hjalte Aabergb. 1966DKDanish politician
- Hjalte Nørregaardb. 1981DKDanish footballer (born 1981)
- Hjalte Flagstadb. 1985Danish actor
- Hjalte Froholdtb. 1996DKDanish player of American football
- Hjalte Thor Knudsenb. 2003DKDanish cyclist
- Hjalte Toftegaardb. 2006DKDanish footballer (born 2006)
- Hjalte Krygerb. 2009Danish cyclist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3K | #172 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2007 | 173 | #48 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2005 | 163 | #49 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2004 | 139 | #50 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 71 | #3,928 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 60 | #4,491 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 44 | #14,813 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 17 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Hjalte mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Hjalti, possibly meaning "a Shetlander", from Hjaltland (“Shetland”). Cognate with Icelandic Hjalti. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Hjalte?
- A machine transcription gives /jalˀd̥ə/ (IPA) for Danish.
- Is Hjalte a male or female name?
- Hjalte is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hjalte have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Hjalte, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hjalte.
- Where is Hjalte most common?
- Hjalte is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hjalte?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 3,034 people named Hjalte, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Hjalte compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Hjalte is the 790th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hjalte?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hjalteThe 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, “Hjalte” — the 790th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.