Halldora
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Halldora is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Halldor, from Old Norse Halldórr, Hallþórr. Doublet of Halltora. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic Halldóra.
- ISIceland1 in 360◐
- FOFaroe Islands1 in 21K
- SESweden1 in 444K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.0K ●
- Sources
- 32 ●
- 1 in 360 ◐
across 3 countries
152 records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Halldóra in IS Iceland.
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●
Feminine form of Halldor, from Old Norse Halldórr, Hallþórr. Doublet of Halltora. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic Halldóra.
Sources 2
Attested across 6 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 | #83 | 975△ | 83 rec. | 1 in 360 | 975 | Halldóra | 32 |
| US United States | — | 41 | 35 rec. | — | — | Halldora | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | 23△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 444K | 23 | Halldora | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 21 | 4 rec. | — | 17 | Halldora | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 13 | 11 rec. | 1 in 451K | 13 | Halldora | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 10 | 9 rec. | — | — | Halldora | 4 |
| FO Faroe Islands | #958 | 5 | 1 rec. | — | 5 | Halldora | 1 |
Roughly 975 people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 360). 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●
- Icelandic2.6K90%
- English1304%
- Danish783%
- Norwegian Bokmål171%
- Swedish131%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 2,639 | 90% |
| English | 130 | 4% |
| Danish | 78 | 3% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 17 | 1% |
| Swedish | 13 | 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●
Halldora 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, a female given name from Old Norse, feminine equivalent Halldor
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 | 11 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 10 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 10 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 20 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●
- Halldóra Bjarnadóttirb. 1873ISIcelandic teacher, politician and author
- Halldóra B. Björnssonb. 1907ISIcelandic writer
- Halldóra Briemb. 1913ISIcelandic architect
- Halldóra Eldjárnb. 1923ISFirst Lady of Iceland (1923–2008)
- Halldóra Thoroddsenb. 1927ISIcelandic badminton player (1927-2014)
- Halldóra Geirharðsdóttirb. 1968ISIcelandic actress
- Dóra Ísleifsdóttirb. 1970ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic graphic designer, artist, and design activist
- Halldóra Mogensenb. 1979ISpolitician
- Katrín Halldóra Sigurðardóttirb. 1989ISIcelandic actress and singer
- Halldóra BjörnsdóttirISIcelandic actress
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #22,295 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 17 | #20,275 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 14 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 13 | #6,608 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 13 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 11 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Halldora?
- We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Halldora (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Halldora have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 975 people bear Halldora in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled halldóra.
- Where is Halldora most common?
- Halldora is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 360 people carrying it.
- How common is Halldora compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Halldora is the 83rd most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
- Is Halldora a male or female name?
- Halldora is a female 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 Halldora mean?
- Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Halldor, from Old Norse Halldórr, Hallþórr. Doublet of Halltora. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic Halldóra.
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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, “Halldora” — the 83rd most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.