Hakon

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Usage

Old Norse Old Norse
Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Old Swedish, Old Danish and younger form, and Old Norse variant spelling of Hákon [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Related Names

See Hákon

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Hakonsen Denmark Norway
Hakonson Norway Old Swedish
Hakonssen Norway
Hakonsson Sweden
Hakonssøn Norway

Female

Hakondatter Norway
Hakonsdatter Norway
Hakonsdotter Sweden

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hakon
Genitive: Hakons
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Hakon
Genitive: Hakonin
Partitive: Hakonia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hakon
Genitive: Hakons
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hakon
Genitive: Hakons

Name Day

Sweden Sweden

14 June

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 392 people were named Hakon (percentage of first or only given name: 26 %) [10]
  • Hakon Jarl hin Rige, a book written by the Danish author Adam Oehlenschläger (1808)

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[11]
131
n.a.
0
n.a.
131
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[12]
32 168 0 0 32 168
Finland Finland[13]
n.a.
136 0 0
n.a.
136
Iceland Iceland[14]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
39
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
39
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[16]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Hakon.


References

  1. Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
  2. Lena Peterson: Nordiskt runnamnslexikon (2007)
  3. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  6. Erik Henrik Lind: Norsk-isländska dopnamn ock fingerade namn från medeltiden (Supplementband (1931)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Svenska medeltida personnamn, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  11. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  13. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  14. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  15. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/