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