Håkan

See also: Hakan, hakan, and haakan

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Hákon. Cognate with Faroese Hákun, Icelandic Hákon, Norwegian Håkon and Danish Hågen.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Håkan c (genitive Håkans)

  1. a male given name from Old Norse

References

  • Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
  • [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 53 331 males with the given name Håkan living in Sweden on 31 December 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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