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Male Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Helge f for the female version.
Usage
Old Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Old Swedish and younger form of Helgi [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Helgi
Male
Helgesen
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Helgessen
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Helgesson
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Female
Helgedatter
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Helgedotter
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Helgesdatter
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Helgesdotter
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Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Helge
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Genitive: |
Helges
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- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Helge
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Genitive: |
Helgen
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Partitive: |
Helgeä
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- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Helge
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Genitive: |
Helges
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- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Helge
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Genitive: |
Helges
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Name Days
Norway
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30 September
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 Finland (Swedish Language)
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31 May
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Sweden
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30 September
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Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001), Norwegian explorer
- Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (25 January 1870 – 11 March 1924), Swedish mathematician
- Helge Rode (16 October 1870 - 23 March 1937), Danish writer, critic and journalist
- Helge Rosvænge (né Helge Anton Rosenvinge Hansen, 29 August 1897 - 17 June 1972), Danish opera singer
Trivia
- "Helge", cycle of verse-romances by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, published in 1814
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
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| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Sweden[12] |
|
1661 |
9622 |
2 |
4 |
1659 |
9618 |
Denmark[13] |
|
3078 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
3078 |
n.a. |
Finland[9] |
|
n.a. |
5411 |
n.a. |
13 |
n.a. |
5398 |
Greenland[14] |
|
18 |
51 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[15] |
|
2 |
2 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[16] |
|
11497 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
11497 |
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. |
Statistics as male name
Recent statistics trend[12][13][16][9]:
Sources: [12] [13] [16] [9]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[16]:
Swedish Regional Distribution
Regional distribution of Helge (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ Marianne Blomqvist: Vad heter finlandssvenskarna? (2006)
- ↑ Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Colette van Luik: Stora boken om namn (2009)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no