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Name Hekla

Meaning:

cloak

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About the name Hekla in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	Icelandic
US 2024 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Hella, Tekla, Thekla, Béla, Bella, Beula, Della, Éala, Edla, Eka Details

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About Hekla, the group of names with the same origin as Hekla

Meaning/translation:	cloak
Language of origin:	Old Norse
Info about origin:	from the name of an active volcano on Iceland
	the name of the volcano (Old Norse for cloak) probably refers to the mist that cloaks its summit
Words:	hekla = the cloak Old Norse
Topics:	Words
Variants' top ranks:	6:Hekla Iceland 2018

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Popularity lists that contain the name Hekla

Series	Graph	Rankings
Iceland	Graph	2023 12, 2022 11, 2021 11, 2020 9, 2018 6, 2016 9, 2015 21, 2014 6
Iceland 5 years		2003-2007 22