Hlíf
given name · Latin script
Meaning: cover, protection, item of protective gear
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/l̥iːv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hlíf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 928K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iceland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
76 people, 2026
Reference-verified
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hlif in SE Sweden.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cover, protection, item of protective gear
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hlíf 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.
76 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 76 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #48,935 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hlíf mean, and where does it come from?
- cover, protection, item of protective gear Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Hlíf?
- A machine transcription gives /l̥iːv/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Hlíf a male or female name?
- Hlíf is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Hlíf?
- In the etymology graph, Liva is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hlíf have the most bearers?
- In Iceland, the national register counted about 76 people named Hlíf, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hlíf.
- Where is Hlíf most common?
- Hlíf is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hlíf?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 76 people named Hlíf in 2026, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hlíf?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hl%C3%ADfThe 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, “Hlíf”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.