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Helga

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Gender
  
Female

Word/name
  
Old Norse

Meaning
  
heilagr - "holy", "blessed"

Related names
  
Hælga, Helge, Helgi, Hege, Hæge, Helja, Helle, Helka, Oili, Olga

Helga (derived from Old Norse heilagr - "holy", "blessed") is a female name, used mainly in Scandinavia, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and South Africa. (Hege, Helle, Helge, Helga, Helka or Oili). The name was in use in England before the Norman Conquest, but appears to have died out afterwards. It was re-introduced to English-speaking nations in the 20th century from Germany and the Nordic countries. Eastern Slavic name Olga (Ольга) is derived from it. Scandinavian male equivalent is Helge, or Helgi.

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Name days: Estonia - May 31, Hungary - October 3, Latvia - October 9, Sweden - November 21, Finland - May 31, Greece - 11 July

People with this name

  • Helga, also known as Saint Olga, (c. 890-969), Princess of Kiev
  • Helga Anders (1948-1986), German-Austrian actress
  • Helga Arendt (born 1964), West German sprinter
  • Helga de la Brache (1817-1885), Swedish con artist
  • Helga Deen (1925-1943), Jewish victim of National Socialism
  • Helga Dernesch (born 1939), Austrian soprano and mezzo soprano
  • Helga Feddersen (1930-1990), German actress
  • Helga Frier (1893-1972), Danish actress
  • Helga Goebbels (1932-1945), Eldest daughter of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Magda Goebbels
  • Helga Guitton, German radio announcer
  • Helga Klein (born 1931), German athlete
  • Helga Königsdorf (born 1938), German mathematician and author
  • Helga Krapf (born 1988), Filipina actress
  • Helga Kuhse, Australian philosopher
  • Helga Liné (born 1932), Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat
  • Helga Nadire İnan Ertürk (born 1984), Turkish-German footballer
  • Helga Niessen Masthoff (born 1941), German tennis player
  • Helga M. Novak (born 1935), German-Icelandic author
  • Helga Pedersen (1911–1980), Danish politician
  • Helga Pedersen (born 1973), Norwegian politician
  • Helga Radtke (born 1962), German track and field athlete
  • Helga Schubert (born 1940), German psychologist and author
  • Helga Seibert (1939-1999), judge at Bundesverfassungsgericht
  • Helga Seidler (born 1949), German athlete and Olympic medalist
  • Helga Stephenson, Canadian media executive
  • Helga Stevens, Belgian politician
  • Helga Testorf, subject of Andrew Wyeth's famous paintings
  • Helga Trüpel (born 1958), German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
  • Helga Vlahović (born 1945), Croatian journalist and producer
  • Helga Zepp-LaRouche (born 1948), German journalist and politician
  • Helle Thorning-Schmidt (born 1966), 41st Prime Minister of Denmark

    • Fictional characters

  • Helga, wife of Hagar in the comic strip Hägar the Horrible
  • Helga, character in the game Suikoden IV
  • Helga Hufflepuff, founder of Hogwarts' Hufflepuff house in the Harry Potter books
  • Helga Pataki, character on Nickelodeon's cartoon show Hey Arnold
  • Helga Geerhart, a character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
  • Helga Von Guggen, villain in Totally Spies animated television series
  • Helga Phugly, a friend of Milo's in The Oblongs
  • Helga, a Dutch enemy character in the fighting game Human Killing Machine
  • Helga Sinclair, mercenary in Atlantis: The Lost Empire
  • Helga Dahl, minor character in the 1997 film Titanic.

    • References

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