Helena

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse
Old Swedish
Old Danish
Finnish
Swedish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic
Faroese
Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Latinised form of Helene

Related Names

See Helene

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Helenuson

Female

Helenudóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Helena
Genitive:	Helenas

- Faroese
Nominative:	Helena
Accusative:	Helenu
Dative:	Helenu
Genitive:	Helenu

- Finnish
Nominative:	Helena
Genitive:	Helenan
Partitive:	Helenaa

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Helena
Accusative:	Helenu
Dative:	Helenu
Genitive:	Helenu

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Helena
Genitive:	Helenas

- Swedish
Nominative:	Helena
Genitive:	Helenas

Name Days

Faroe Islands

21 May

Finland

31 July

Finland (Swedish Language)

31 July

Sweden

31 July

Further Information

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name
• Faroe Islands: Officially approved as a given name

Earliest Documented Usage

• Denmark: 11th century
• Sweden: 12th century

Strongest Period of Usage

• Norway:
  • 1910-1925
  • 2000-
• Denmark:
  • 1920-1929
  • 1980-
  • 1990-
• Sweden:
  • 1960-1979

Predominant Regional Usage

• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
• Sweden:
  • Gotland (19th century) see map
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Västerbotten (19th century) see map
  • Öland (19th century) see map
  • Småland (19th century) see map
  • Hälsingland (19th century) see map
  • Halland (19th century) see map

Namesakes

• Helena Kristina Bergström Nutley (born 5 February 1964), Swedish actress
• Helena Christensen (born 25 December 1968), Danish fashion model and photographer

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Finland		n.a.	173167	n.a.	173167	0	0
Sweden		27263	81921	27261	81912	2	9
Denmark		3583	n.a.	3583	n.a.	0	n.a.
Iceland		695	820	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		14	42	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		2345	n.a.	2345	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Helena (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.