Entry № 4173 · Icelandic origin

Hekla Hekla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEK-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"Iceland's famous volcano"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Icelandic)

A name that means "iceland's famous volcano".

Hekla is the name of Iceland's most famous volcano — known in medieval Europe as "the Gateway to Hell." The word means "hooded cloak" in Old Norse, describing the volcano's cloud cap. A traditional Icelandic feminine name.

Hekla is widely used in Iceland.

Iceland's volcano. The medieval Gateway to Hell.

The name in its native script.

Hekla
Transliteration
Hekla
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛk.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hekla stands.

Hekla 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.

Heklas before her.

Real people
Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir
Icelandic artist.
born 1969
In fiction
Hekla
Common in Icelandic fiction.

Names connected to Hekla.

The number behind Hekla.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hekla reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.