Entry № 3992 · Old Norse origin

Halla Halla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Norse
Meaning
"Hall (Iceland's first poet-saint)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Norse)

A name that means "hall (iceland's first poet-saint)".

Halla is from the Old Norse hǫll (hall, stone) — feminine form of Hallr. Halla Eyjólfsdóttir (c. 935-?) was the medieval Icelandic woman known from the Landnámabók. Halla Tómasdóttir (born 1968) is the current President of Iceland (elected 2024).

Used widely in modern Iceland.

Hall, stone. The current President of Iceland.

The name in its native script.

Halla
Transliteration
Halla
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑːl.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Halla stands.

Halla does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hallas before her.

Real people
Halla Tómasdóttir
President of Iceland.
born 1968
In fiction
Halla
Heroine of Woman at War.
Benedikt Erlingsson, 2018

Names connected to Halla.

The number behind Halla.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Halla reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.