Håkan
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Håkan is a common Swedish
given name
. It has a common origin with the Norwegian given name
Haakon (Håkon) in the Old Norse
Hákon. The meaning of the name is disputed but a possible meaning is "high son" from Old Norse
há- (Proto-Norse hauha-) (high) and konr (kin).
On Swedish runestones the name is usually written Hakun and in medieval documents usually Haquon or in the Latinised versions Haqvin/Haqvinus. From the 16th century and onwards the name is usually written Håkan. Although in some western regions the name can be found as Håkon and Håka as late as in the 18th century.
In Old East Slavic the name was written Yakun (Cyrillic: Якун). For example the Primary Chronicle
mentions the Varangian
leader Yakun
that arrived in Kievan Rus'
in the year 1024 and fought in the Battle of Listven
. The name never became popular as a Slavic name but at least two high rank Novgorod
officials had the name: the posadnik
Yakun Andreevich (Cyrillic: Якун Андреевич) (mentioned 1167) and the tysyatsky
Yakun Namnezhich (Cyrillic: Якун Намнежич) (mentioned 1214).
An old English name form
Hacon has survived in English placenames
like Haconby
which literally means Hacon's Village, originating through Norse
settlers in England
.
Some famous people by this name are:
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
. It has a common origin with the Norwegian given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
Haakon (Håkon) in the Old Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
Hákon. The meaning of the name is disputed but a possible meaning is "high son" from Old Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
há- (Proto-Norse hauha-) (high) and konr (kin).
On Swedish runestones the name is usually written Hakun and in medieval documents usually Haquon or in the Latinised versions Haqvin/Haqvinus. From the 16th century and onwards the name is usually written Håkan. Although in some western regions the name can be found as Håkon and Håka as late as in the 18th century.
In Old East Slavic the name was written Yakun (Cyrillic: Якун). For example the Primary Chronicle
Primary Chronicle
The Primary Chronicle , Ruthenian Primary Chronicle or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113.- Three editions :...
mentions the Varangian
Varangians
The Varangians or Varyags , sometimes referred to as Variagians, were people from the Baltic region, most often associated with Vikings, who from the 9th to 11th centuries ventured eastwards and southwards along the rivers of Eastern Europe, through what is now Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.According...
leader Yakun
Yakun
Yakun or Jakun, deriving from Old Norse Hákon, was a Varangian leader who is mentioned in the Primary Chronicle and in the Cave monastery in Kiev...
that arrived in Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus was a medieval polity in Eastern Europe, from the late 9th to the mid 13th century, when it disintegrated under the pressure of the Mongol invasion of 1237–1240....
in the year 1024 and fought in the Battle of Listven
Battle of Listven
The Battle of Listven was part of the succession struggle following the death of Vladimir the Great in 1015. It was fought between Mstislav of Chernigov and Kievan forces supporting Yaroslav the Wise; Mstislav defeated Yarslav...
. The name never became popular as a Slavic name but at least two high rank Novgorod
Novgorod Republic
The Novgorod Republic was a large medieval Russian state which stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Ural Mountains between the 12th and 15th centuries, centred on the city of Novgorod...
officials had the name: the posadnik
Posadnik
Posadnik was the mayor in some East Slavic cities or towns. Most notably, the posadnik was the mayor of Novgorod and Pskov...
Yakun Andreevich (Cyrillic: Якун Андреевич) (mentioned 1167) and the tysyatsky
Tysyatsky
Tysyatsky was a military leader in Ancient Rus, who commanded a people's volunteer army called тысяча...
Yakun Namnezhich (Cyrillic: Якун Намнежич) (mentioned 1214).
An old English name form
Exonym and endonym
In ethnolinguistics, an endonym or autonym is a local name for a geographical feature, and an exonym or xenonym is a foreign language name for it...
Hacon has survived in English placenames
British toponymy
The toponymy of England examines the linguistic origins of place names in England, and trends in naming. Toponymy is distinct from the study of etymology, which is concerned mainly with the origins of the words themselves. English toponymy is rich, complex and diverse...
like Haconby
Haconby
Haconby is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the western edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, north from Bourne-Geography:...
which literally means Hacon's Village, originating through Norse
Norsemen
Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.The meaning of Norseman was "people...
settlers in England
Danelaw
The Danelaw, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the "Danes" held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons. It is contrasted with "West Saxon law" and "Mercian law". The term has been extended by modern historians to...
.
Some famous people by this name are:
- Håkan AlgotssonHåkan AlgotssonHåkan Algotsson is a retired Swedish ice hockey goaltender.Algotsson began his career with his hometown Tyringe SoSS in 1983. In 1988, Algotsson joined Västra Frölunda and would spend the next eleven seasons with the team...
, ice hockey goaltender - Håkan AnderssonHåkan Andersson (motorcyclist)Håkan Andersson was a Swedish motocross racer. He won the F.I.M. 250cc Motocross World Championship in 1973.Andersson began racing in the motocross world championships for the Husqvarna factory, finishing second behind Suzuki's Joël Robert in the 1971 250cc motocross world championship...
, Swedish former motocross World Champion - Håkan AnderssonHåkan Andersson (ice hockey)Håkan Andersson is a Swedish amateur hockey scout who currently serves as the Director of European Scouting for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League ....
, Director of European Scouting for the Detroit Red Wings professional ice hockey team - Håkan CarlquistHåkan CarlquistHåkan Carlqvist is a retired Swedish motocross racer. He won the F.I.M. 250cc Motocross World Championship in 1979 as a member of the Husqvarna factory racing team.In 1980, he switched to Yamaha to contest the 500cc motocross world championship. He finished 3rd in 1981 and 1982...
, former motocross world champion - Håkan DahlbyHåkan DahlbyHåkan Dahlby is a Swedish double trap shooter, the winner of the 2003 and 2004 European Championships. In the 2004 Olympics he finished second in the qualification round, but dropped to fifth place during the final round...
, double trap shooter - Håkan EricssonHakan EricssonHåkan Ericsson is a Swedish paralympian and wheelchair racer. At the age of 21, Ericsson won the 1990 London Marathon, barely edging out German athlete Wolfgang Peterson to set a new course record. Ericsson competed in the 1988, 1992, and 2000 Summer Paralympics, winning a total of one gold, four...
, wheelchair racer and paralympian - Håkan ErikssonHåkan ErikssonHåkan Eriksson is a Swedish orienteering competitor. He received a silver medal in the relay at the 1989 World Orienteering Championships in Skövde, and received a bronze medal in 1999...
, orienteering competitor - Håkan ErikssonHåkan Eriksson (ice hockey)Lars Håkan Eriksson is a retired Swedish ice hockey player. Eriksson began playing hockey in Bjurfors IF but was acquired by Skellefteå AIK in 1974. He became Swedish champions with Skellefteå in 1978, and was a part of Sweden's 1979 World Championship team that won bronze...
, retired ice hockey player - Håkan FredrikssonHåkan FredrikssonHåkan Fredriksson, born December 18, 1970, is a Swedish producer and musician. He has been credited to work with bands/artists such as Within Temptation, Da Buzz, Fredrik Kempe and A*Teens....
, producer and musician - Håkan HagegårdHåkan HagegårdHåkan Hagegård is a Swedish operatic baritone.He studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and has performed on stages across the world, including Carnegie Hall, the London Royal Opera House, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Sydney Opera House, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Vienna...
, baritone - Håkan HardenbergerHåkan HardenbergerHåkan Hardenberger is a Swedish trumpeter. Taking up the trumpet at the age of eight under the guidance of hometown teacher Bo Nilsson, Hardenberger pursued further studies at the Paris Conservatoire, with Pierre Thibaud, and in Los Angeles with Thomas Stevens...
, trumpeter - Håkan HellströmHåkan HellströmHåkan Hellström is a Swedish musician. He got his Swedish breakthrough in the year 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg"...
, musical artist - Håkan IsacsonHåkan IsacsonHåkan Isacson was a Swedish intelligence agent who became known as the whistleblower of the IB affair, a political scandal in Sweden in the 1970s. Isacson was a former employee at IB, a secret Swedish domestic intelligence organization, who was used as the source by journalists Peter Bratt and Jan...
, Swedish intelligence agent - Håkan JeppssonHåkan JeppssonHåkan Jeppsson is a Swedish fotball chairman for the Swedish club Malmö FF, a post he has held since 2010.In his younger years Jeppsson played football at Malmö FF simultaneously as he played table tennis at IK Pallas. After a couple of years being active in both sports he decided to quit football...
, chairman for the Swedish football club Malmö FF - Håkan JohanssonHåkan JohanssonBorn December 4, 1975 in Vänersborg, Sweden, Håkan Johansson is the drummer for Division Of Laura Lee and Frantic Mantis and drummed for the post-punk band Uncle. He is also the founder of Carcrash Records Born December 4, 1975 in Vänersborg, Sweden, Håkan Johansson is the drummer for Division Of...
, drummer - Håkan JuholtHåkan JuholtHåkan Juholt, born 16 September 1962, is a Swedish photographer, journalist, and Social Democratic politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 1994, representing Kalmar län...
, politician - Håkan JörgensenHåkan JörgensenHåkan Jörgensen, author and freelance journalist, was born 1969 and grew up in Asmundtorp outside Landskrona, Sweden. In the 1990s he worked as a diving instructor in several countries...
, author and freelance journalist - Håkan KarlssonHåkan KarlssonJonas Klas Håkan Karlsson is a former freestyle swimmer from Sweden. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 m freestyle. He was affiliated with the Karlskrona SS.-References:*...
, freestyle swimmer - Håkan LansHåkan LansAnders Håkan Lans is a Swedish inventor. His patented inventions are a color graphics processor and an "Arrangement for producing a pattern on a light-sensitive surface"...
, inventor - Håkan LarssonHåkan LarssonHåkan Larsson is a Swedish Centre Party politician, member of the Riksdag 2002–2006.-References:...
, politician - Håkan LoobHåkan LoobPer Håkan Loob is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player who is currently the president of hockey operations of Färjestads BK in the Swedish Elitserien, for whom he played much of his playing career....
, ice hockey player - Håkan MagnussonHaakon VI of NorwayHaakon VI of Norway was King of Norway from 1343 until his death and King of Sweden from 1362 until 1364, when he was deposed by Albert of Mecklenburg in Sweden.-Background:...
, 14th century king of Sweden - Håkan MalmrotHåkan MalmrotHåkan Malmrot was a Swedish breaststroke swimmer. He won two goldmedals at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp on 200m and 400m breaststroke, both times with Swedish Thor Henning as silver medalist....
, swimmer - Håkan MalmströmHåkan MalmströmHåkan Malmström is a Swedish footballer. He was a defender in the Swedish football club IF Brommapojkarna. He came to Brommapojkarna in the 2004 season, previously he has played for Segeltorps IF and Spårvägens FF. He also played for Norwegian team Hamarkameratene in the 2008 and 2009...
, football player - Håkan MildHåkan MildStig Håkan Mild is a former Swedish football midfielder and current director of sports of IFK Göteborg, his main club as player, with which he won four Swedish Championships...
, football player - Håkan NesserHåkan NesserHåkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful novels, mostly crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000...
, author - Håkan PerssonHåkan PerssonHåkan Persson is a Swedish music journalist, born in Stockholm, 1 June. He is the host and producer of P3 Rock, a radio show on P3, Sveriges Radio, since 1996. He started doing radio in 1981, with the punk show Ny Våg. Later he's been presenting radio shows like: änubah!, Inferno, Slammer and...
, musical journalist - Håkan PetterssonHåkan PetterssonHåkan Pettersson is a Swedish orienteering competitor.He received a silver medal in the sprint distance at the 2002 European Orienteering Championships in Sümeg.He is junior world champion in the classic distance from 1998.-References:...
, orienteering competitor - Håkan Spegel, 17-18th century writer
- Håkan SvenssonHåkan SvenssonHåkan Svensson is a former professional football goalkeeper, who currently is assistant manager at Falkenbergs FF in Superettan-Career:...
, football goalkeeper - Håkan SyrénHåkan SyrénGeneral Håkan Erik Gunnar Syrén is a General of the Swedish Amphibious Corps and chairman of the European Union Military Committee...
, military general - Håkan SödergrenHåkan SödergrenKarl Håkan Södergren is a retired professional ice hockey player, often a recurring color commentator in Viasat's ice hockey broadcast productions.-Playing career:...
, ice hockey player - Håkan WestergrenHåkan WestergrenHåkan Westergren was a Swedish actor. He was mostly known for playing in Swedish comedy movies during the 1930's and 1940's, but was sometimes seen in some more serious roles. He was married to Swedish actress Inga Tidblad.-External links:...
, actor - Håkan the Red, 11th century king of Sweden