Helga

Old Norse Helga ("holy"), a pre-Christian term, feminine form of Helgi. Doublet of Olga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlɡə/

Helga

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

• Olga

• Hagle

From Old Norse Helga.

Helga

1. a female given name from Old Norse

From Old Norse Helga.

Helga

1. a female given name

• Helge, Helle, Olga

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛl.ɣaː/

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• Hyphenation: Hel‧ga

Helga f

1. a female given name

Helga

1. a female given name, ultimately from Old Norse Helga

• Helgi, Helju, Olga, Olli

From Old Norse Helga.

Helga f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Helga: Helguson
• daughter of Helga: Helgudóttir

Variant of Helka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelɡɑ/, [ˈhe̞lɡɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elɡɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Hel‧ga

Helga

1. a female given name

• Helga is the 350^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,226 female individuals (and as a middle name to 432 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

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Helga

1. a female given name from Old Norse Helga

• Helge, Olga

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛlɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: Hel‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɡɒ

Helga

1. a female given name

Helga f

1. a female given name from Old Norse, masculine equivalent Helgi

• Olga

• Helge, Hæge, Hege

From Old Norse Helga, from *heiligr (“happy, lucky”).

Helga f (definite Helga)

1. a female given name from Old Norse, masculine equivalent Helge

• Hella, Olga

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 170
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 3 169 females with the given name Helga living in Norway on January 1st 2023, with the frequency peak in the 1880s and 90s. Accessed on 17th January, 2023.

• Hǫlga

From the Old Norse adjectives helga, a weak forms of *heiligr (“happy, lucky”).

The alternative form Hǫlga stems from the Old Norse adjective hǫlga, a weak form of *heilugr.

Cognate to the male given names Helgi and Hǫlgi.

Helga f (genitive Helgu)

1. a female given name

• Icelandic: Helga
• Faroese: Helga
• Norwegian: Helga, Hege, Hæge (Setesdal)
• Old Swedish: Hiælgha, Hælgha
  • Swedish: Helga, Hella
• Danish: Helga, Helle
• → Finnish: Helka, Hella
• → Russian: О́льга (Ólʹga)
• → Belarusian: Во́льга (Vólʹha)
• → Ukrainian: О́льга (Ólʹha)

Helga m

1. inflection of Helgi:
   1. accusative
   2. dative
   3. genitive

• Eivind Vågslid, Norderlendske fyrenamn, 1988, →ISBN
• Roland Otterbjörk, Svenska förnamn, Stockholm 1964

Derived from Old Norse Helga. Doublet of Olga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛl.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɡa
• Syllabification: Hel‧ga

Helga f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helga

• Helga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛlɡɐ, (Brazil) -ɛwɡɐ
• Hyphenation: Hel‧ga

Helga f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helga

Derived from Swedish Helga, from Old Norse Helga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛɫɡa/

Helga f (genitive singular Helgy, nominative plural Helgy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• “Helga”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

From Old Swedish Hiælgha, Hælgha, from Old Norse Helga.

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Helga c (genitive Helgas)

1. a female given name

• Helge
• Olga

• hagel