Given name
Håkan
Håkan is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Swedish.
Original Old NorseHákon
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old Norse.
How it developed
Håkan developed from Old Norse Hákon. The earlier name combines ha (“horse or high”) and konr (“son, descendant”).
Håkan’s family of names
Håkan shares a linguistic root with Hagen. Håkan has a related form in Hakon. Håkan shares a linguistic root with Hakon.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Håkan has relatives in 8 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Håkan comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Håkan
- Håkan the Red11th-century King of Sweden1040–1079
- Håkan MildSwedish footballerborn 1971
- Håkan NesserSwedish writerborn 1950
- Gustaf NilssonSwedish footballer (born 1997)
- Håkan LoobSwedish ice hockey player (born 1960)
- Håkan HellströmSwedish singer and songwriterborn 1974
- Håkan Malmrotswimmer (1900–1987)
- Håkan JuholtSwedish politicianborn 1962
- Håkan HardenbergerSwedish trumpeter (born 1961)
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