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’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɑɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haagen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 996K
- DKDenmark1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | 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 66K | — | Haagen | 18 |
| EE Estonia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 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)
- Friedrich Haagenb. 1806DEGerman historian (1806-1879)
- Jean Haagenb. 1868SESwedish artist (1868-1938)
- Margarete Haagenb. 1889DEGerman actress (1889–1966)
- Eugen Haagenb. 1898DEGerman virologist and torturer (1898–1972)
- Brigitte Crodelb. 1907DEnot in their usual namemedical assistant to Dr. Niels Eugen Haagen
- Gisela Deckertb. 1930DEnot in their usual nameGerman zoologist and conservationist (1930-2024)
- Ulrich Haagenb. 1948DEGerman journalist
- Claude Haagenb. 1962LULuxembourgian politician, educator and former handball player
- Kaido Haagenb. 1966EEEstonian photographer (born 1966)
- Søren Haagenb. 1974DKDanish 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)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 420 | #4,760 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 334 | #60,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 334 | #57,090 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 146 | #3,695 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Haagen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 807 people named Haagen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haagen.
- 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 2026-10-10.