Helge m

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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

Related Names

See Helgi

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Helgesen
Helgessen
Helgesson

Female

Helgedatter
Helgedotter
Helgesdatter
Helgesdotter

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Helge
Genitive:	Helges

- Finnish
Nominative:	Helge
Genitive:	Helgen
Partitive:	Helgeä

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Helge
Genitive:	Helges

- Swedish
Nominative:	Helge
Genitive:	Helges

Name Days

Norway

30 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

31 May

Sweden

30 September

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Greenland: 1942

Strongest Period of Usage

• Denmark: 1910-1929
• Finland: 1900-1950
• Norway: 1950-1955

Predominant Regional Usage

• Sweden:
  • Norrland (20th century)
  • Västergötland (20th century)
  • Östergötland (19th century) see map
  • Jämtland (19th century) see map
  • Bohuslän (19th century) see map
  • Skåne (19th century) see map
  • Uppland (19th century) see map
• Denmark:
  • Lolland-Falster
  • København

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

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&
Sweden		1661	9622	2	4	1659	9618
Denmark		3078	n.a.	0	n.a.	3078	n.a.
Finland		n.a.	5411	n.a.	13	n.a.	5398
Greenland		18	51	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		2	2	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		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

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Helge (m) in Sweden in the year 1880.