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Female Name
This name is used both as a female and a male name. See Helle m for the male version.
Usage
Old Danish
Danish
Norwegian
Swedish
Finnish
Greenlandic
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Origin and Meaning
Danish variant form of Hella [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Related Names
See Hella
Grammar
- Danish |
Nominative: |
Helle
|
Genitive: |
Helles
|
- Finnish |
Nominative: |
Helle
|
Genitive: |
Hellen
|
Partitive: |
Helleä
|
- Norwegian |
Nominative: |
Helle
|
Genitive: |
Helles
|
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Helle
|
Genitive: |
Helles
|
Name Days
Finland
|
27 October
|
Norway
|
20 November
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Namesakes
- Helle Tyrsted Gotved (née Rasmussen, 23 October 1912 - 19 June 2006), Danish author
- Helle Genie Virkner (née Lotinga, 15 September 1925 – 10 June 2009), Danish actress, author and former first lady
- Helle Degn (born 20 October 1946), Danish politician
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Denmark[10] |
|
33638 |
n.a. |
33637 |
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
Sweden[11] |
|
422 |
608 |
420 |
548 |
2 |
60 |
Finland[12] |
|
n.a. |
864 |
n.a. |
835 |
n.a. |
29 |
Greenland[13] |
|
38 |
64 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Iceland[14] |
|
4 |
5 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Norway[15] |
|
2889 |
n.a. |
2883 |
n.a. |
6 |
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 female name
Recent statistics trend[11][10][15][12]:
Sources: [11] [10] [15] [12]
Norwegian historic statistics trend[15]:
References
- ↑ Rikard Hornby: Danske navne - Træk af navngivningens historie (1951)
- ↑ Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Sydvestjysk navneskik gennem 300 år (1965)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1963)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no