Given name
Håkon
Håkon is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk.
Original Old NorseHákon
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Håkon developed from Hákon.
Håkon’s family of names
In Norwegian usage, Håkon shares a linguistic root with the Old English form Hacon. In English usage, Håkon has a related form in Haakon. In Norwegian Nynorsk usage, Håkon has a related form in Haakon.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Håkon has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Old Norse roots to each of them.
Old Norsewhere Håkon comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Haakonvariant · English, Norwegian Bokmål
- Hakkovariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
- Håkenvariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
- Håkkåvariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
- Håkåvariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
- Håkavariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
- Håkovariant · Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Håkon
- Haakon IVKing of Norway1204–1263
- Haakon the GoodKing of Norway918–961
- Haakon VKing of Norway from 1299 until 13191270–1319
- Haakon Sigurdssonde facto ruler of Norway from c. 975–995930–995
- Haakon IIIKing of Norway1182–1204
- Haakon IIKing of Norway1147–1162
- Haakon Ericssonking of Norway and earl of Lade997–1030
- Håkon BrusveenNorwegian male cross-country skier (1927–2021)
- Haakon the YoungCo-king of Norway1232–1257
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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