Halldor
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halldor is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and Norwegian Bokmål, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pers. name, Icelandic.
- ISIceland1 in 208◐
- NONorway1 in 42K
- SESweden1 in 213K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.8K ●
- Sources
- 63 ●
- 1 in 208 ◐
across 3 countries
358 records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
pers. name, Icelandic
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | #70 | 1,685△ | 145 rec. | 1 in 208 | 1.7K | Halldor | 63 |
| NO Norway | — | 569 | 66 rec. | — | 468 | Halldor | 20 |
| US United States | — | 99 | 79 rec. | — | — | Halldor | 35 |
| FI Finland | — | 81 | 1 rec. | — | 40 | Halldor | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 48△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 213K | 48 | Halldor | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 24 | 19 rec. | 1 in 245K | 24 | Halldor | 28 |
| PE Peru | — | 20 | 14 rec. | — | — | Halldor | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 13 | 6 rec. | — | — | Halldor | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | 7 | 5 rec. | — | — | Halldor | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 6 | 5 rec. | — | — | Halldor | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | 6 | 2 rec. | — | — | Halldor | 6 |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | — | 0 rec. | — | 1 | — | 1 |
Roughly 1.7K people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 208). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic6.1K81%
- Norwegian Bokmål4686%
- English2493%
- Danish2133%
- Swedish951%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 6,137 | 81% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 468 | 6% |
| English | 249 | 3% |
| Danish | 213 | 3% |
| Swedish | 95 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Halldor 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, a male given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Halldora
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, a male given name from Old Norse
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 19 |
| 2000 | 19 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 21 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 18 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 22 |
| 2007 | 19 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 17 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 18 |
| 2012 | 20 |
| 2013 | 20 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 21 |
| 2019 | 22 |
| 2020 | 21 |
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●
- Halldór Hermannssonb. 1878ISIcelandic librarian
- Halldór Stefánssonb. 1892ISIcelandic writer and playwright
- Halldór Kiljan Laxnessb. 1902ISIcelandic author (1902-1998)
- Halldór Péturssonb. 1916ISIcelandic painter, illustrator, graphic designer
- Halldor Gunnløgssonb. 1918DKDanish architect (1918-1985)
- Halldor Espelidb. 1920NONorwegian aviator (1920-1944)
- Halldór Ásgrímssonb. 1947ISIcelandic politician (1947-2015)
- Justin Smith-Ruiub. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican philosopher (1972-)
- Halldor Skardb. 1973NONorwegian Nordic combined skier
- Halldór Helgasonb. 1991ISIcelandic snowboarder
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●
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 468 | #2,634 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 48 | #14,012 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #11,065 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #10,328 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 24 | #3,847 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 21 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 20 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Halldor?
- We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Halldor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Halldor have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Halldor in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled halldor.
- Where is Halldor most common?
- Halldor is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 208 people carrying it.
- How common is Halldor compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Halldor is the 70th most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
- Is Halldor a male or female name?
- Halldor 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 Halldor mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name, Icelandic
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Halldor” — the 70th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.