Helgé

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Helgé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old Norse Helgi.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 523
  • SESweden1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

10,464 people, 2025

Sources
111 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 523 (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Helge in NO Norway, SE Sweden, US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Helgé: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Helgé
  1. Old NorseHelgi(measured from records)
  2. Old Norsehelgraccusative and dative helgi(inferred from the name graph)via Helgi

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Old Norse Helgi.

Sources 3

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Helgé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Helgé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#76410,4641 in 52335KHelge54
SE Sweden—8,9431 in 1.1K8.9KHelge22
DK Denmark—2,4711 in 2.4K2.5K—3
FI Finland—1,3401 in 4.2K5.5K—4
US United States—2441 in 1.4M219Helge111
IS Iceland—21 in 175K2——

10,464 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Helgé is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Norway, United States, Belgium

    Also written Helge

  • Spanish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Norway, Argentina

    Also written Helge

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Helgé under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Helgé mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Old Norse Helgi. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
In which country does Helgé have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Helgé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helge.
Where is Helgé most common?
Helgé is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 523 people carrying it.
How common is the name Helgé?
In Norway, the national register counted 10,464 people named Helgé in 2025, about 1 in 523 residents.
How common is Helgé compared with other names?
In Norway, Helgé is the 764th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Helgé” — the 764th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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