Hjalmar
Hjalmar was last recorded in 1937, when 5 babies were given it; 115 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hjalmar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hjalmar mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Hjalmar is “a male given name, revived in the 19th century” Its etymology gives the senses “helmet” (hjalmr) and “army” (herr).
From Old Norse Hjalmarr, from hjalmr (“helmet”) + herr (“army”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hjalmar?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,763, in 1937; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1916, the peak
Hjalmar peaked in 1916, when 13 boys were given it, #2,202 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 5 | #3,763 | 4.7 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,006 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,778 | 5.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,455 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,536 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,531 | 4.5 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,676 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,679 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,024 | 5.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,440 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1918 | 7 | #3,516 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,834 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,202 | 14.6 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,068 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,020 | 9.8 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,161 | 42.6 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,011 | 49.2 |
| 1889 | 6 | #925 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hjalmar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hjalmar has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hjalmar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hjalmar, and how old are they?
An estimated 2 Americans named Hjalmar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 157 people named Hjalmar (3 women and girls, 154 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 317 babies since 1880, Hjalmar is the second most given (36% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Hjalmar and names like it
- Compare Hjalmar and HjalmerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHjalmar peaked in 1916.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Hjalmar: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Hjalmar.
- Names starting with HMost given first.