Harpa
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Harpa is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- ISIceland1 in 294◐
- DKDenmark1 in 202K
- SESweden1 in 309K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.3K ●
- Sources
- 1 ●
- 1 in 294 ◐
across 3 countries
0 records
Derived
Iceland
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Roughly 1.2K people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 294). 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●
- Icelandic5K73%
- Hindi89213%
- 5148%
- English1202%
- Danish1042%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 4,971 | 73% |
| Hindi | 892 | 13% |
| 514 | 8% | |
| English | 120 | 2% |
| Danish | 104 | 2% |
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●
Harpa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of harpă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of harper
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, definite feminine singular of harpe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of harpe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, harp (musical instrument)
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 19 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2019 | 23 |
| 2020 | 24 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 10 years between 2011–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Harpa Björnsdóttirb. 1955ISIcelandic painter
- Harpa Gunnarsdóttirb. 1965ISIcelandic singer
- Harpa Þorsteinsdóttirb. 1986ISIcelandic soccer player
- Harpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttirb. 1987IShandball 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●
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.2K | #106 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 811 | #48 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 665 | #52 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 64 | #10,211 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 33 | #17,906 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 29 | #3,848 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 23 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #86,025 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 20 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 19 | — |
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 · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Harpa?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Harpa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Harpa have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.2 thousand people bear Harpa in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Harpa most common?
- Harpa is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 294 people carrying it.
- Is Harpa a male or female name?
- Harpa 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.
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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, “Harpa”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.