Halen
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Halen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with the element had(u) ‘battle’, ‘strife’.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 16K
- SESweden1 in 24K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Halén in SE Sweden.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with the element had(u) ‘battle’, ‘strife’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Halen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Halen | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 424 | 1 in 24K | 424 | Halén | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Halen | 37 |
| FI Finland | 350 | 1 in 16K | 350 | Halen | 8 |
| US United States | 296 | 1 in 1.1M | 885 | Halen | 165 |
| NO Norway | 62 | 1 in 88K | 62 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Halen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, to get
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Dutch, to fetch, to get
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds, to (go) get, to fetch (to go somewhere and take something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of halar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, definite singular of hale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hermannus van Halenb. 1633NLDutch theologian (1633-1701)
- Theodorus Josephus van Halenb. 1803NLDutch physician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 327 | #58,130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 296 | #66,754 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 269 | #76,963 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 200 | #7,471 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 62 | #22,709 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 52 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Halen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with the element had(u) ‘battle’, ‘strife’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Halen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Halen in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halen.
- Where is Halen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Halen is densest in Finland — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Halen?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 424 people named Halen, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Halen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.