Halvor

Boys' name

Stone + guardian, through Hallvord

Halvor has been given to 108 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 1916, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Halvor, 1934

1 in 415,000

Halvor over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Halvor: meaning, origin, and history

Stone + guardian, through Hallvord

Old Norse

What Halvor means

Halvor belongs to the name family reached through Halvor → Hallvord. Its meaning is “stone + guardian”.

Origin, language, and formation

Halvor is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hallvord.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 108 boys were recorded with the name Halvor between 1912 and 1934. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,617 in 1916.

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 Halvor?

Halvor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1934: 1 in 415,000; 5 of 2,076,780 births
Among boys only: 1 in 207,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1934: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 287,904 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Halvor 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 1934 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 287,904 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Halvor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Halvors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Halvor was born before 1921 — so the typical Halvor is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Halvor 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 1916 (10)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,617; 1916

Spellings of Halvor

Halvor is not the most common spelling — Valor is, with 57.3% against Halvor's 4.1%.

Valor57.3%1,492
Halo38.5%1,003
Halvor4.1%108

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.

Halvor around the world

Where Halvor 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
#199
in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Halvor 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: #2,617; 1916
Peak year: 1916; 10 that year
First recorded: 1912
Last recorded: 1934
All-time count: 108
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Halvor

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

Halton Haleem Halden Halley Haldon Halid Halim Halsten Hallis Halil Halford Favor Hallet Travor Halsey Haloa Halston Hallel Haldor Halen Hallard Hall Hallett Halo

Sibling names for Halvor

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

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Cecil Ona Albina

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Regis Sydney Meyer Gustave

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