Helka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɛɫkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Helka is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Swedish Helga < Old Norse helga (“holy”).
- USUnited States
- PLPoland
- CACanada
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)
From Swedish Helga < Old Norse helga (“holy”).
Sources 2
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- UAUkraine
- PLPoland
- DEGermany
- CACanada
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)
Helka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ( L, Sal, Sc ap. A ). " Helka ari züzün (S), estaba pidiendo socorro" A . Eman ere zen oihuka, helka, bere boz azkarrarekin . Prop 1910, 55. (ap. DRA ) Jaun erretorari oihuz eta helka: --Jaun erretora, fite, fite! Lf Murtuts 10. Ama Birjinari hel-ka ari zen . Lf ELit 273.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Leena Helkab. 1924FIFinnish bilingual writer
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 171 | #98,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 166 | #112,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 157 | #111,988 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #82,088 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #101,825 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #88,378 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Helka mean, and where does it come from?
- From Swedish Helga < Old Norse helga (“holy”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Helka?
- In the etymology graph, Oili is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Helka?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛɫkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Helka have the most bearers?
- Helka is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Helka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helkaThe 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, “Helka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.