Name Awesome

Haakon

Boys' name

Possibly high, through Hákon

Haakon has been given to 471 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Haakon, 2024

1 in 239,000

Haakon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haakon: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly high, through Hákon

Old Norse

What Haakon means

Haakon belongs to the name family reached through Haakon → Hákon. Its meaning is “high”.

Origin, language, and formation

Haakon is used in English and Norwegian. Its origins include Old Norse.

Haakon comes through Old Norse Hákon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hákon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 471 boys were recorded with the name Haakon between 1912 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2016; its best national rank was #2,388 in 1912.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Haakon?

Haakon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 239,000
14 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 123,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
165,505 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haakon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 165,505 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haakon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haakons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haakon was born before 2010 — so the typical Haakon is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
455
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (175).

Is Haakon rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2016 (30)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,388
1912

Spellings of Haakon

Haakon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 96.8% against Haakon's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Haakon is used

Across 1910–2025, Haakon was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 71,141 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Haakon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haakon around the world

Where Haakon ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #207
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1958–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Haakon by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,388
1912
Peak year
2016
30 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
471
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Haakon

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HaadiDeakonLinkonHaarisBarkonBreckonHaalandJaykonHaakenMarkonHaaheoHaaziqLynkonAshkonHaashirHaakimNeekonAkonHaamidHaasanHakonHaashimYukonNickon

Sibling names for Haakon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

Explore around Haakon

Top names of 2016, Haakon's peak yearThe 2010s in fullOther names that peaked in 1912Boys' names starting with HNorwegian Boy NamesViking Boy Names