Hakon

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Haakon in US United States, FI Finland, GB United Kingdom and 11 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hakon is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name287 records spelled Hakon5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

  Also written Håkon, Hákon, Häkon, Hȧkon

• a separate given name70 records spelled Hakon4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden

  Also written Håkon, Häkon, Hákon

• Russian surname32 records spelled Hakon17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Norway, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Хокон, Якун, Haakon, Håkon, Хакон

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hakon is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, ) Haakon: im 20. Jh. aus dem

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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.

Over time●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Hakon Thorsenb. 1866DKDanish painter and teacher
• Hakon Børresenb. 1876DKDanish composer (1876–1954)
• Edgar Sjödahlb. 1887SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1887–1973)
• Ragnar Spärckb. 1896DKnot in their usual nameDanish zoologist
• Hakon Stephensenb. 1900DKDanish architect, journalist and writer
• Karl Jesper Hakon Hjelmquistb. 1905SESwedish botanist (1905–1999)
• Bo Hakon Jørgensenb. 1946DKDanish literary scholar
• Hakon Ringdalb. 1954NObadminton player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 51 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hakon?

We estimate roughly 4.4 thousand people bear Hakon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Hakon have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.9 thousand people bear Hakon in Norway, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hakon.

Where is Hakon most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hakon is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 633 people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.

How common is Hakon compared with other names?

In Norway, Hakon is the 49th most common given name of 38,312 given names recorded there.

Is Hakon a male or female name?

Hakon 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.

What does the name Hakon mean?

Recorded meaning: Old Norse; of noble birth.