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Hjalmar

Boys' name

Helmet + army

Hjalmar has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 13 recorded.

Babies named Hjalmar, 1937

1 in 426,000

Hjalmar over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hjalmar: meaning, origin, and history

Helmet + army

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hjalmar means

Hjalmar means “helmet + army”, associated with hjalmr and herr.

Origin, language, and formation

Hjalmar is used in Danish, Faroese and Swedish.

Hjalmar comes through Old Norse Hjalmarr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hjálmar.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Faroese, Hjalmar is pronounced /ˈjalmaɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 115 boys were recorded with the name Hjalmar between 1889 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1916; its best national rank was #925 in 1889.

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 Hjalmar?

Hjalmar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1937, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1937
1 in 426,000
5 of 2,130,660 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1937
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
295,373 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hjalmar 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 1937 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 295,373 children born in 1937 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hjalmar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hjalmars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hjalmar was born before 1919 — so the typical Hjalmar is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (45).

Is Hjalmar 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (13)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#925
1889

Spellings of Hjalmar

Hjalmar is not the most common spelling — Jamar is, with 92.8% against Hjalmar's 0.67%.

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.

Hjalmar around the world

Where Hjalmar 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
    #301
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1952–1983
    #443
    in 1983

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

Hjalmar 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
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Best rank ever
#925
1889
Peak year
1916
13 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
115
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hjalmar

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

HjalmerXiomarAudemarGiomarYosmarLeomarJosimarShermarIsmarItamarWillmarQamarEdmarCamarRomarGilmarRaymarIsamarAimarShalamarJaymarHilmarWilmarAdhemar

Sibling names for Hjalmar

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

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