Helga

From Old Norse Helga ("holy"), a pre-Christian term, feminine form of Helgi. Doublet of Olga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlɡə/

Helga

1. A female given name from Old Norse occasionally borrowed from Scandinavia.

• Olga

• Hagle

From Old Norse Helga.

Helga

1. a female given name from Old Norse

From Old Norse Helga.

Helga

1. a female given name

• Helge, Helle, Olga

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛl.ɣaː/

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• Hyphenation: Hel‧ga

Helga f

1. a female given name

Helga

1. a female given name, ultimately from Old Norse Helga

• Helgi, Helju, Olga, Olli

From Old Norse Helga.

Helga f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Helga: Helguson
• daughter of Helga: Helgudóttir

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Helga
Accusative	Helgu
Dative	Helgu
Genitive	Helgu

Variant of Helka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelɡɑ/, [ˈhe̞lɡɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elɡɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): Hel‧ga

Helga

1. a female given name

• Helga is the 350^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,226 female individuals (and as a middle name to 432 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

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Helga

1. a female given name from Old Norse Helga

• Helge, Olga

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛlɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: Hel‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɡɒ

Helga

1. a female given name

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Helga	Helgák
accusative	Helgát	Helgákat
dative	Helgának	Helgáknak
instrumental	Helgával	Helgákkal
causal-final	Helgáért	Helgákért
translative	Helgává	Helgákká
terminative	Helgáig	Helgákig
essive-formal	Helgaként	Helgákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Helgában	Helgákban
superessive	Helgán	Helgákon
adessive	Helgánál	Helgáknál
illative	Helgába	Helgákba
sublative	Helgára	Helgákra
allative	Helgához	Helgákhoz
elative	Helgából	Helgákból
delative	Helgáról	Helgákról
ablative	Helgától	Helgáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	Helgáé	Helgáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	Helgáéi	Helgákéi

Possessive forms of Helga
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Helgám	Helgáim
2nd person sing.	Helgád	Helgáid
3rd person sing.	Helgája	Helgái
1st person plural	Helgánk	Helgáink
2nd person plural	Helgátok	Helgáitok
3rd person plural	Helgájuk	Helgáik

Helga f

1. a female given name from Old Norse, masculine equivalent Helgi

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Olga

• Helge, Hæge, Hege

From Old Norse Helga, from *heiligr (“happy, lucky”).

Helga f (definite Helga)

1. a female given name from Old Norse, masculine equivalent Helge

• Hella, Olga

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 170
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 3 169 females with the given name Helga living in Norway on January 1st 2023, with the frequency peak in the 1880s and 90s. Accessed on 17th January, 2023.

• Hǫlga

From the Old Norse adjectives helga, a weak forms of *heiligr (“happy, lucky”).

The alternative form Hǫlga stems from the Old Norse adjective hǫlga, a weak form of *heilugr.

Cognate to the male given names Helgi and Hǫlgi.

Helga f (genitive Helgu)

1. a female given name

• Icelandic: Helga
• Faroese: Helga
• Norwegian: Helga, Hege, Hæge (Setesdal)
• Old Swedish: Hiælgha, Hælgha
  • Swedish: Helga, Hella
• Danish: Helga, Helle
• → Finnish: Helka, Hella
• → Russian: О́льга (Ólʹga)
• → Belarusian: Во́льга (Vólʹha)
• → Ukrainian: О́льга (Ólʹha)

Helga m

1. inflection of Helgi:
   1. accusative
   2. dative
   3. genitive

• Eivind Vågslid, Norderlendske fyrenamn, 1988, →ISBN
• Roland Otterbjörk, Svenska förnamn, Stockholm 1964

Derived from Old Norse Helga. Doublet of Olga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛl.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɡa
• Syllabification: Hel‧ga

Helga f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helga

• Helga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛlɡɐ, (Brazil) -ɛwɡɐ
• Hyphenation: Hel‧ga

Helga f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helga

• IPA^(key): /xêlɡa/

Hȅlga f (Cyrillic spelling Хе̏лга)

1. a female given name

• “Helga”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024

Derived from Swedish Helga, from Old Norse Helga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛɫɡa/

Helga f (genitive singular Helgy, nominative plural Helgy, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• “Helga”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

From Old Swedish Hiælgha, Hælgha, from Old Norse Helga.

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Helga c (genitive Helgas)

1. a female given name

• Helge
• Olga

• hagel