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A given name in Danish, Finnish and 1 more
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01 / Meaning & origin
Halfdan is a masculine given name.
Separate records with matching spellings: Halfdán (Old Norse), Hálfdan (Icelandic), Hálfdán (Icelandic)
No etymology is recorded in our sources for this spelling yet. The record exists because the name is documented in use; a meaning will be shown only once a cited source supports it.
02 / Across borders
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Norway, 2024: 4 boys (rank 468). Documented as a given name in Norwegian.
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Halfdan
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | 7 | 302 | observed |
| 1947 | 9 | 278 | observed |
| 1948 | 9 | 270 | observed |
| 1949 | 7 | 298 | observed |
| 1950 | 5 | 342 | observed |
| 1951 | 6 | 331 | observed |
| 1952 | 11 | 245 | observed |
| 1953 | 9 | 273 | observed |
| 1954 | 4 | 402 | observed |
| 1955 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1956 | 7 | 331 | observed |
| 1957 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1958 | 4 | 448 | observed |
| 1959 | 5 | 409 | observed |
| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | 4 | 454 | observed |
| 1962 | 6 | 407 | observed |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | 4 | 510 | observed |
| 1966 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1967 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1968 | 5 | 483 | observed |
| 1969 | 4 | 547 | observed |
| 1970 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1971 | 5 | 540 | observed |
| 1972 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1973 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1974 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1975 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1976 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1977 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1978 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1979 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1980 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1981 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1982 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1983 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1984 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1985 | 6 | 525 | observed |
| 1986 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1987 | 6 | 518 | observed |
| 1988 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1989 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1990 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1991 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1992 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1993 | 4 | 575 | observed |
| 1994 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | 5 | 487 | observed |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | 5 | 492 | observed |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | 4 | 525 | observed |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | 6 | 432 | observed |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | 5 | 451 | observed |
| 2024 | 4 | 468 | observed |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Halfdan” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
HALFDAN— “half Dane”
Persons of mixed birth were drolly called by the actual fractional word _half_, in Germany Halbwalah, half a foreigner, or half a Wallachian, and Halbtüring or half a Thuringian; and in the North, generally, Halfdan, half a Dane. So early was this in use that there was a mythical king, Halfdan, from whom the name was adopted by many a true-born Dane and Northman, and has been Latinized as Haldanus.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section IX (Locality) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
Norwegian composer (1815–1868)
Danish medical doctor and director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
