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Haaland

Gender
Boy
Say it
HAH-land
Origin
Scandinavian
US rank, 2025
#8,906 for boys
Style
New arrival

Haaland is a boys' name of Scandinavian origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).

What does Haaland mean?

Scandinavian: Norwegian farm-name surname

Best known through Norwegian footballer Erling Haaland.

Is Haaland a girl's or a boy's name?

Haaland is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Haaland in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,906th among boys
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 210,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Haaland, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2021.

Half of all the boys named Haaland in the US since 1880 were born between 2023 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

2021Busiest: 16 in 20242025
Haaland in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20258#8,906
202416#5,655
202315#5,922
20227#9,815
20215#12,141

Names like Haaland

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Scandinavian names

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Haaland: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/haaland, updated 20 October 2026.