Helgi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weekend; more generally, two or more holidays in a row, in conjunction with a Sunday or a major Christian holiday
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɛlcɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Helgi is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ISIceland
- EEEstonia
- DKDenmark
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
weekend; more generally, two or more holidays in a row, in conjunction with a Sunday or a major Christian holiday
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Helgi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of helg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, hound, hunting dog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, holiness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, skandināvu mitoloģijā - mītiskais ciltstēvs, kurš savā pirmajā dzīvē paveicis vairākus varoņdarbus un atriebies tēva slepkavam, otrajā dzīvē viņš uzvar ļauno ķēniņu Hundingu, trešajā dzīvē kopā ar Halfdanu valda dāņu zemē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Cilvēka vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Helgi Ridamäeb. 1929EEEstonian musicologist and music teacher (1929-1999)
- Helgi Skúlasonb. 1933ISactor (1933-1996)
- Helgi Sallob. 1941EEEstonian singer and actress (born 1941)
- Helgi Erilaidb. 1942EEEstonian journalist (1942-2023)
- Helgi Ilob. 1942EEEstonian actress (born 1942)
- Helgi Tomassonb. 1942ISIcelandic ballet dancer
- Bjorgvin Halldorssonb. 1951ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic singer (1951–2026)
- Helgi Björnssonb. 1958ISIcelandic singer and film actor
- Helgi Daníelssonb. 1981ISIcelandic footballer
- Helgi Dam Ziskab. 1990FOFaroe Islands chess 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 1.5K | #14 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 1.4K | #17 |
| IS Iceland | Statistics Iceland — Names (1703–present) | — | 1.4K | #17 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 116 | #7,697 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 102 | #7,607 |
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 91 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 85 | #3,302 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 66 | #1,924 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #6,394 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 45 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 40 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Helgi mean, and where does it come from?
- weekend; more generally, two or more holidays in a row, in conjunction with a Sunday or a major Christian holiday Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Helgi?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛlcɪ/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- Is Helgi a male or female name?
- Helgi 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 Helgi?
- In the etymology graph, Helge and Oļegs are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Helgi have the most bearers?
- Helgi is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Helgi?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helgiThe 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, “Helgi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.