Hjalmar (given name)

Hjalmar is a male first name.

Origin and Meaning

Hjalmar is Old Norse origin and means helmeted soldier or the helmeted warrior. The name is to be found especially in Scandinavian countries.

Well-known bearers of the name

  • Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1864-1925), Norwegian composer
  • Hjalmar Branting (1860-1925), Swedish politician
  • Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862-1953), Swedish politician
  • Hjalmar Mae (1901-1978), Estonian politician and collaborator in German-occupied Estonia
  • Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970), German Reichsbank President and Minister of Economics under Hitler 1934-1937
  • Hjalmar Söderberg (1869-1941), Swedish writer
  • Hjalmar Stemmann (* 1963), German politician
  • Hjalmar Sundén (1908-1993), Swedish theologian and university professor of religious psychology at Uppsala
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