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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse Hákon. Cognate with Swedish Håkan.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Håkon
- a male given name
References
- Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
- Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 12 109 males with the given name Håkon living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with frequency peaks in the 1900s decade and in the 1990s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse Hákon. Cognate with Faroese Hákun, Icelandic Hákon, Swedish Håkan and Danish Hågen.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Håkon m
- a male given name from Old Norse
Usage notes
Patronymics:
References
- Eivind Vågslid (1988) “Håkon”, in Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN
- Kristoffer Kruken, Ola Stemshaug (1995) Norsk personnamnleksikon, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, →ISBN
- Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 13 303 males with the given name Håkon living in Norway on January 1st 2022, with frequency peaks in the 1900s decade and in the 1990s. Accessed on 5th November, 2022.