Halme
surname · Latin script
Meaning: swidden; farmland that is produced using the slash and burn technique (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈhɑ̝lme̞(ʔ)/(recorded in a dictionary) Finnish · from Wiktionary
Halme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country: 7,064 people, counted by DVV. Halme is also written Халме in Cyrillic.
- FIFinland1 in 789(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 97K
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Halme itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 789 (inferred from the name graph)
7,064 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Halme in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Халме in RU Russia.
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.
How to pronounce Halme
- Finnish:/ˈhɑ̝lme̞(ʔ)/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)swidden; farmland that is produced using the slash and burn technique
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Halme is found
(measured from records)Halme 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 7,064 | 1 in 789 | 7.1K | Halme | 2 |
| US United States | 206 | 1 in 1.6M | 260 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 105 | 1 in 97K | 105 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Халме | 24 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
7,064 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Halme 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.
In German, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Halm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, first-person plural imperative of halit
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)- Laila Halmeb. 1934FIFinnish singer (1934–2021)
- Tony Halmeb. 1963FIFinnish boxer and politician (1963–2010)
- Aapo Halmeb. 1998FIFinnish association football 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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Halme mean, and where does it come from?
- swidden; farmland that is produced using the slash and burn technique Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Halme?
- In Finnish /ˈhɑ̝lme̞(ʔ)/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Halme?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Halme, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled halme. After it come United States, Sweden, Spain and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Halme most common?
- Halme is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 789 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Halme?
- In Finland, the national register counted 7,064 people named Halme, about 1 in 789 residents.
What do you want to know about Halme?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/halmeThe 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, “Halme” — ranked 252nd in Finland (DVV). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.