Given name
Hjalti
“from Hjaltland”
Hjalti is a masculine given name, possibly from Old Norse and perhaps meaning “from Hjaltland.” It is used in Faroese and Icelandic.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Possibly from Old Norse hjalti (“from Hjaltland”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Hjalti’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Hjalti shares a linguistic root with the Danish form HJALTE.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hjalti
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