Helgesen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from the personal name Helge, Old Norse Helgi, literally ‘holiness’, a derivative of the adjective heilagr ‘holy’, ‘sacred’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɛɫɡizən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Helgesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 825(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 35K
- SESweden1 in 162K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 825 (inferred from the name graph)
6,628 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
patronymic from the personal name Helge, Old Norse Helgi, literally ‘holiness’, a derivative of the adjective heilagr ‘holy’, ‘sacred’ .
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Helgesen 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.
6,628 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Poul Helgesenb. 1485SEDanish Carmelite, humanist and historian
- Henry Thomas Helgesenb. 1857USAmerican politician (1857-1917)
- Aasa Helgesenb. 1877NOFirst female mayor in Norway (1877-1968)
- Hermann Helgesenb. 1889NOgymnast (1889–1963)
- Johnny Helgesenb. 1897NONorwegian footballer (1897-1964)
- Finn Helgesenb. 1919NOspeed skater (1919–2011)
- Sally Helgesenb. 1948USAmerican writer
- Gunn Marit Helgesenb. 1958NONorwegian politician
- Vidar Helgesenb. 1968NOChief of Staff to Prime Minister Erna Solberg
- Eivind Helgesenb. 2001NOassociation football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Helgesen mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from the personal name Helge, Old Norse Helgi, literally ‘holiness’, a derivative of the adjective heilagr ‘holy’, ‘sacred’ . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Helgesen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛɫɡizən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Helgesen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Helgesen, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Helgesen most common?
- Helgesen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 825 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Helgesen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 6,628 people named Helgesen, about 1 in 825 residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helgesenThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Helgesen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.