Helge

given name · Latin script

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

Helge is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name. In Norwegian, recorded as to hallow, sanctify.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 523(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 1.1K
  • DKDenmark1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

10,464 people, 2025

Sources
124 (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)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to hallow, sanctify

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Helge is read(measured from records)

Helge is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • German48%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Helge in German.

  • Norwegian20%

    to hallow, sanctify

    as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Danish9.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Helge in Danish.

  • English7.5%

    Helgoland [Heligoland]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    island. North Sea

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Helge 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 Helge is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#4810,4641 in 52335KHelge124
SE Sweden#6858,9431 in 1.1K8.9KHelge53
DK Denmark#2142,4711 in 2.4K2.5KHelge84
GH Ghana#712≈1,700 est.≈1 in 18K—Helge5
FI Finland—1,3401 in 4.2K5.5KHelge21

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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Helge is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway, Australia, United Kingdom

    Also written Helgé

  • Spanish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Norway, Argentina

    Also written Helgé

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Norway, United States, Belgium

    Also written Helgé

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Finland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Helgé

47 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Helge is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Helge är ett nordiskt namn, troligen ett ursprungligt binamn, bestämd form av helig (fornsvenskt helagher). Under hednisk tid kan namnet ha betytt ’vigd åt gudarna’. Oleg är en rysk form av Helge. I den rikssvenska almanackan 30 september och i den finlandssvenska 31 maj.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Scandinavian: from an early medieval personal name, a derivative of the adjective heilagr prosperous, successful (from Old Norse heill hale, hearty, happy). The word later developed the meaning ‘blessed, holy’, with the result that the name seemed a particularly suitable choice to give expression to pious hopes. Variant: Helje (Danish) .

    as a word

  • In Swedish, The letter "H" in the Swedish spelling alphabet (since 1960; previously Harald)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Helge von Koch, b. 1870Helge Auleb, b. 1887Helge Løvland, b. 1890Helge Thiis, b. 1897Helge Ingstad, b. 1899Helge Kragh, b. 1944Helge Schneider, b. 1955Ingar Helge Gimle, b. 1956Helge Braun, b. 1972Helge Limburg, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 45 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Helge
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—71#7,602
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—52#25,365
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#35,525

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Helge mean, and where does it come from?
to hallow, sanctify Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Helge a male or female name?
Helge is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Helge?
In the etymology graph, Oleh, Oleg and Oļegs are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Helge have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Helge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helge.
Where is Helge most common?
Helge is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 523 people carrying it.
How common is the name Helge?
In Norway, the national register counted 10,464 people named Helge in 2025, about 1 in 523 residents.
How common is Helge compared with other names?
In Norway, Helge is the 48th 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, “Helge” — the 48th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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