Helgen

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Helgen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: saint.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 39K
  • GHGhana≈1 in 302K

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)

142 people

Sources
104 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

saint

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Helgen 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 Helgen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway1421 in 39K142Helgen7
US United States1371 in 2.4M145Helgen104
GH Ghana≈97 est.≈1 in 302K—Helgen1
FR France≈85 est.≈1 in 796K9—1
SE Sweden281 in 364K28—1
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

142 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

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

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Helgén

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Norway

    Also written Helgén

25 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)

Helgen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., moderne Variante von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Danish, saint (a dead person recognised as holy in Christianity)

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

  • In Swedish, definite singular of helg

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

  • In German, dative singular of Helge

    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)

19201940196019802000Geir Helgen, b. 1939Kristofer Michael Helgen, b. 1980Lauren E. Helgen, b. 2000

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 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Helgen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020145#124,450
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—142#11,057
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010137#125,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000110#139,757
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195129—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—28#19,993
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193115—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Helgen mean, and where does it come from?
saint Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Helgen have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 142 people named Helgen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helgen.
Where is Helgen most common?
Helgen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 39 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Helgen?
In Norway, the national register counted 142 people named Helgen, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Helgen?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helgen

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Helgen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Helgen parses inside a full name →