Helga Forename
963rd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 945,097 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Iceland
Helga Forename Definition:
A female name. a Norse name meaning holy. Helga, Helge, Helghi are found in Domesday Book as the names of tenants Tempore Regis Edwardi (In the Reign of Edward the Confessor), but the name does not seem to have survived in England. It has continued to be used in Scandinavia and has been carried thence to the USA where it is not uncommon.
Read More About This ForenameHelga Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 100% | 760,826 | 1:127 | 20 |
| Austria | 100% | 72,903 | 1:117 | 21 |
| United States | 100% | 14,880 | 1:24,364 | 1,840 |
| Angola | 100% | 12,012 | 1:2,245 | 445 |
| Hungary | 100% | 7,618 | 1:1,285 | 152 |
| Norway | 100% | 5,893 | 1:871 | 205 |
| Mozambique | - | 5,760 | 1:4,730 | 908 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 5,741 | 1:2,944 | 539 |
| Brazil | 100% | 5,443 | 1:39,360 | 2,994 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 4,027 | 1:2,040 | 399 |
| Italy | 100% | 3,597 | 1:16,976 | 803 |
| Iceland | 99% | 3,401 | 1:108 | 11 |
| Denmark | - | 3,259 | 1:1,734 | 297 |
| Belgium | 100% | 2,826 | 1:4,066 | 679 |
| Romania | 100% | 2,737 | 1:7,326 | 625 |
| South Africa | 100% | 2,703 | 1:20,175 | 2,790 |
| Sweden | 100% | 2,548 | 1:3,869 | 480 |
| Portugal | - | 2,315 | 1:4,497 | 387 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,255 | 1:14,693 | 1,492 |
| England | 100% | 2,052 | 1:27,097 | 1,542 |
| Finland | 100% | 1,777 | 1:3,086 | 458 |
| Indonesia | 89% | 1,737 | 1:148,511 | 15,427 |
| Chile | 100% | 1,703 | 1:10,339 | 780 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1,113 | 1:9,574 | 440 |
| Argentina | 100% | 1,057 | 1:40,467 | 1,288 |
| Spain | 100% | 990 | 1:47,000 | 1,929 |
| Peru | 100% | 955 | 1:33,289 | 2,087 |
| Russia | 97% | 777 | 1:185,629 | 2,840 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 757 | 1:69,734 | 4,520 |
| Namibia | - | 698 | 1:3,444 | 573 |
| Mexico | 100% | 562 | 1:220,898 | 3,778 |
| France | 100% | 542 | 1:122,639 | 2,464 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 488 | 1:21,376 | 1,966 |
| Estonia | 100% | 459 | 1:2,866 | 537 |
| Poland | 98% | 424 | 1:89,687 | 2,012 |
| Paraguay | 98% | 397 | 1:18,229 | 1,248 |
| Colombia | 100% | 378 | 1:126,399 | 3,701 |
| Latvia | 100% | 351 | 1:5,743 | 521 |
| Australia | - | 321 | 1:42,547 | 2,161 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 311 | 1:34,088 | 1,753 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 293 | 1:54,978 | 1,755 |
| Ghana | - | 281 | 1:96,036 | 4,158 |
| Croatia | 100% | 279 | 1:15,115 | 952 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 267 | 1:665,035 | 18,973 |
| Suriname | 100% | 263 | 1:2,102 | 491 |
| DR Congo | 91% | 240 | 1:307,615 | 12,192 |
| Honduras | 100% | 217 | 1:40,633 | 2,049 |
| Philippines | 99% | 208 | 1:509,661 | 16,930 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 204 | 1:148,048 | 5,944 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 196 | 1:24,326 | 1,509 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 180 | 1:210 | 54 |
| Egypt | - | 174 | 1:528,166 | 14,341 |
| Zambia | - | 174 | 1:91,120 | 4,497 |
| Albania | 100% | 163 | 1:18,691 | 2,445 |
| Gabon | - | 160 | 1:11,771 | 1,796 |
| Cape Verde | - | 157 | 1:3,370 | 519 |
| Ecuador | - | 152 | 1:116,624 | 2,638 |
| Scotland | 100% | 139 | 1:38,492 | 1,371 |
| Kenya | 100% | 133 | 1:348,174 | 11,359 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 131 | 1:18,769 | 1,223 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 126 | 1:42,143 | 707 |
| New Zealand | - | 123 | 1:36,878 | 2,271 |
| Ireland | 100% | 119 | 1:39,021 | 1,426 |
| Thailand | 100% | 117 | 1:598,853 | 26,651 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 114 | 1:31,143 | 1,116 |
| Wales | 100% | 114 | 1:27,143 | 1,292 |
| Israel | 99% | 112 | 1:75,026 | 3,780 |
| Greenland | - | 109 | 1:517 | 111 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 107 | 1:32,034 | 1,411 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 106 | 1:5,321 | 569 |
| Malta | - | 102 | 1:4,209 | 603 |
| Belarus | 98% | 98 | 1:96,759 | 1,009 |
| India | 100% | 95 | 1:12,788,189 | 352,907 |
| Serbia | 100% | 92 | 1:77,671 | 2,460 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 74 | 1:208,430 | 12,379 |
| Cameroon | 72% | 63 | 1:343,024 | 12,399 |
| Uganda | 94% | 61 | 1:671,425 | 13,738 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 60 | 1:100,306 | 3,501 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 58 | 1:3,310 | 615 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 49 | 1:1,003 | 226 |
| Turkey | 100% | 48 | 1:1,620,869 | 12,777 |
| El Salvador | - | 41 | 1:154,678 | 2,575 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96% | 41 | 1:198,837 | 16,978 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 39 | 1:780,768 | 29,717 |
| Greece | 100% | 34 | 1:321,604 | 5,247 |
| Panama | 100% | 31 | 1:126,018 | 5,723 |
| Congo | 100% | 27 | 1:185,526 | 6,218 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 22 | 1:317,745 | 6,287 |
| Qatar | 100% | 20 | 1:118,480 | 12,874 |
| China | - | 16 | 1:85,378,486 | 64,025 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 14 | 1:1,267,632 | 12,179 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 14 | 1:7,839 | 1,133 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 13 | 1:432,890 | 5,953 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 12 | 1:153,596 | 1,669 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 11 | 1:2,097,812 | 47,531 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 9 | 1:232,306 | 6,858 |
| Madagascar | - | 9 | 1:2,625,490 | 3,077 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 9 | 1:70,508 | 2,461 |
| Singapore | - | 9 | 1:698,562 | 12,752 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 9 | 1:151,269 | 9,102 |
| Tunisia | - | 9 | 1:75,211 | 3,284 |
| Benin | - | 7 | 1:1,510,835 | 32,846 |
| Jersey | - | 7 | 1:14,283 | 1,073 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 7 | 1:421,697 | 2,256 |
| Hong Kong | - | 6 | 1:1,292,121 | 6,806 |
| Cuba | - | 5 | 1:2,301,310 | 5,387 |
| Moldova | - | 5 | 1:712,228 | 3,885 |
| Ukraine | - | 5 | 1:9,099,982 | 12,980 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Botswana | - | 4 | 1:546,112 | 13,807 |
| Central African Republic | - | 4 | 1:1,128,848 | 698 |
| Guyana | - | 4 | 1:190,816 | 11,826 |
| Iraq | - | 4 | 1:8,754,465 | 16,071 |
| Jamaica | - | 4 | 1:720,807 | 13,486 |
| Monaco | - | 4 | 1:9,616 | 1,312 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4 | 1:7,703,141 | 17,485 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 4 | 1:5,942,420 | 87,370 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Haiti | - | 3 | 1:3,575,651 | 30,510 |
| Iran | - | 3 | 1:26,165,623 | 45,792 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 3 | 1:64,785,893 | 186,184 |
| Palestine | 100% | 3 | 1:1,516,686 | 4,479 |
| Afghanistan | - | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Barbados | - | 2 | 1:144,894 | 2,643 |
| Belize | 100% | 2 | 1:177,154 | 5,935 |
| Georgia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,869,233 | 20,119 |
| Japan | - | 2 | 1:63,993,028 | 72,606 |
| Jordan | 100% | 2 | 1:4,413,387 | 8,826 |
| Kosovo | - | 2 | 1:930,720 | 16,593 |
| Nepal | 100% | 2 | 1:14,243,676 | 86,069 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Saint Lucia | 50% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 2 | 1:55,790 | 4,636 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 2 | 1:237,819 | 1,799 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 2 | 1:3,575,996 | 76,635 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| Guam | - | 1 | 1:160,646 | 3,210 |
| Guernsey | - | 1 | 1:63,331 | 901 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Lesotho | - | 1 | 1:2,039,997 | 47,971 |
| Malawi | - | 1 | 1:17,112,310 | 24,110 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Turkmenistan | - | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Vietnam | - | 1 | 1:92,623,113 | 10,484 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
Helga (63) may also be a surname.
Helga Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. a Norse name meaning holy. Helga, Helge, Helghi are found in Domesday Book as the names of tenants Tempore Regis Edwardi (In the Reign of Edward the Confessor), but the name does not seem to have survived in England. It has continued to be used in Scandinavia and has been carried thence to the USA where it is not uncommon. See also Olga.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
A Teutonic name, meaning: Holy.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Helga Forename Popularity
Helga Demographics
Average Helga Salary in
United States
$43,407 USD
Per year
Rank:
206,101 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00468421
Rank: 1,633 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
99.72%
Sample size: 8,896 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
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