Hekla
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hekla is a given name, most frequently recorded in Iceland. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: to crochet.
- ISIceland1 in 957◐
- DKDenmark1 in 246K
- FIFinland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
to crochet
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 2,228 | 89% |
| DK Denmark | 108 | 4% |
| FI Finland | 57 | 2% |
| US United States | 24 | 1% |
| AU Australia | 14 | 1% |
≈2,431 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Icelandic2.2K90%
- Danish1094%
- Finnish572%
- English331%
- French121%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 2,242 | 90% |
| Danish | 109 | 4% |
| Finnish | 57 | 2% |
| English | 33 | 1% |
| French | 12 | 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●
Hekla 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 English, A stratovolcano in the south of Iceland.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Aktīvs vulkāns Islandes dienvidu daļā, 1491 m vjl., kopš 1104. g. notikuši >20 lieli izvirdumi; viduslaiku teiksmās - vieni no vārtiem uz elli un raganu pulcēšanās vieta
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 13 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 14 |
| 2016 | 16 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 15 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 9 years between 2012–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hekla Palmadottirb. 1988ISIcelandic association football 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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 715 | #217 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 503 | #94 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #3,114 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #18,638 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #22,218 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021) | 2021 | 21 | #11 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 16 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #34,572 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 15 | — |
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 · 34 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hekla?
- Our records include 2,431 bearers of Hekla across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Hekla have the most bearers?
- Hekla is most frequently recorded in Iceland.
- Is Hekla a male or female name?
- Hekla 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 Hekla mean?
- Recorded meaning: to crochet
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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, “Hekla”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.