Baby name
REVIVING
🇳🇴 Halvdan
/HAHL · vdahn/
Meaning
“Half Dane”
Old Norse name from 'halfr' (half) and 'Danr' (Dane), meaning half-Dane; carried by several Viking Age Norwegian kings including Halvdan the Black, father of Harald Fairhair.
Nicknames
halv
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Authentically Viking; chosen today by Norwegian parents seeking a deeply historical name.
The cultural moment.
Very rare in Norway through the 20th century; small revival among tradition-minded parents since 2010.