Haagen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Old Norse personal name Hdkon, probably a compound of hdr ‘high’ or a word meaning ‘horse’ -i- kyn ‘family’ or konr ‘son’, ‘descendant’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɦaaː.ɣə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Haagen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 40K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 69K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈970 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Haagen
- Dutch:/ɦaaː.ɣə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Old Norse personal name Hdkon, probably a compound of hdr ‘high’ or a word meaning ‘horse’ -i- kyn ‘family’ or konr ‘son’, ‘descendant’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Haagen is found
(measured from records)Haagen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Haagen | 68 |
| NL Netherlands | 420 | 1 in 41K | 420 | Haagen | 47 |
| US United States | 334 | 1 in 996K | 334 | Haagen | 128 |
| DK Denmark | 146 | 1 in 40K | 146 | Haagen | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Haagen | 18 |
| EE Estonia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 69K | listed | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Haagen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of various places named Hagen, for example in North RhineWestphalia and the Palatinate.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Haag or Haage.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Margarete Haagenb. 1889DEGerman actress (1889–1966)
- Eugen Haagenb. 1898DEGerman virologist and torturer (1898–1972)
- Claude Haagenb. 1962LULuxembourgian politician, educator and former handball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Haagen mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Old Norse personal name Hdkon, probably a compound of hdr ‘high’ or a word meaning ‘horse’ -i- kyn ‘family’ or konr ‘son’, ‘descendant’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Haagen?
- In Dutch /ɦaaː.ɣə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Haagen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 967 people named Haagen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haagen. After it come Netherlands, United States, Denmark and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Haagen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haagen is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Haagen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 420 people named Haagen in 2007, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haagenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haagen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.