Helga
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Helga is a female name, used mainly in Scandinavia
, Iceland
, Germany
and Hungary
(Hege, Helle, Helge, Helga, Helka or Oili). The name was in use in England
before the Norman Conquest, but appears to have died out afterwards. It was re-introduced to English-speaking
nations in the 20th century from Germany
and the Nordic countries
. Russian name Olga
(Ольга) is derived from it. Scandinavian male equivalent is Helge, or Helgi.
Name day
s: Estonia
- May 31, Hungary - October 3, Latvia
- August 11, Sweden
- November 21, Finland
- May 31.
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...
, Iceland
Iceland
Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
(Hege, Helle, Helge, Helga, Helka or Oili). The name was in use in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
before the Norman Conquest, but appears to have died out afterwards. It was re-introduced to English-speaking
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
nations in the 20th century from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and the Nordic countries
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
. Russian name Olga
Olga (name)
Olga is a female given name, derived from Old Norse name Helga. It is used in Russia , Ukraine , Belarus , Poland, Czech Republic, Greece , Finland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia , Iceland, and Latin America. The Russian male equivalent is Oleg .Name days Olga is a female given name, derived from Old...
(Ольга) is derived from it. Scandinavian male equivalent is Helge, or Helgi.
Name day
Name day
A name day is a tradition in many countries in Europe and Latin America that consists of celebrating the day of the year associated with one's given name....
s: Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
- May 31, Hungary - October 3, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
- August 11, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
- November 21, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
- May 31.
People with this name
- HelgaOlga of KievSaint Olga , or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga In some Scandinavian sources she was called other name. born c. 890 died 11 July 969, Kiev) was a ruler of Kievan Rus' as regent Saint Olga , or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga In some Scandinavian sources she was...
, also known as Saint Olga, (c. 890-969), Princess of Kiev - Helga AndersHelga AndersHelga Anders was an Austrian television actress.She was born to an Austrian father and a German mother and she grew up in Ruhpolding and Bielefeld after her parents' divorce. She made her stage debut at the age of eight...
(1948-1986), German-Austrian actress - Helga ArendtHelga ArendtHelga Arendt is a retired West German sprinter who competed mainly in the 400 metres....
(born 1964), West German sprinter - Helga de la BracheHelga de la BracheHelga de la Brache, née Aurora Florentina Magnusson, , was a Swedish con artist. She attained a royal pension by convincing the authorities that she was the secret daughter of King Gustav IV of Sweden and Queen Frederica of Baden.- The fraud :The exiled Gustav IV and Frederica of Baden had divorced...
, Victorian Swedish con artist - Helga Daub (born 1942), German politician (FDP)
- Helga DeenHelga DeenHelga Deen was the author of a diary, discovered in 2004, which describes her stay in a Dutch prison camp, Kamp Vught, where she was brought during World War II at the age of 18....
(1925-1943), Jewish victim of National Socialism - Helga DerneschHelga DerneschHelga Dernesch is an Austrian soprano and mezzo soprano. Her career has taken her through four successive phases: from mezzo-soprano to lyric soprano to dramatic soprano and after about 1980 back to mezzo again...
(born 1939), Austrian soprano and mezzo soprano - Helga Einsele (1910-2005), German criminologist, prison director and criminal law reformer
- Helga FeddersenHelga FeddersenHelga Feddersen was a popular German actress, comedienne, singer, author, and theater director....
(1930-1990), German actress - Helga FrierHelga FrierHelga Frier was a Danish actress.She debuted in 1914 in the Den jyske Folkescene.-Filmography:*Odds 777 - 1932*De blaa drenge - 1933*Rasmines bryllup - 1935*Sjette trækning - 1936...
(1893-1972), Danish actress - Helga Gießelmann (born 1949), German politician (SPD)
- Helga GuittonHelga GuittonHelga Guitton is a german radio and television presenter. She was a disc jockey on Radio Luxemburg and was presenter of the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest.-References:...
, German radio announcer - Helga Hahnemann (1937-1991), German entertainer, cabaret singer and actress
- Helga Hirsch (born 1948), German publicist and correspondent
- Helga Hoffmann (born 1937), German athlete
- Helga KleinHelga KleinHelga Klein is a German athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres.She competed for West Germany in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the Silver medal with her team mates Ursula Knab, Maria Sander and Marga Petersen.-References:...
(born 1931), German athlete - Helga Königsdorf (born 1938), German mathematician and author
- Helga KrapfHelga Krapf-Personal life:She was born in Germany to a German father named Hans Krapf, a retired seaman and to a Filipina mother, Agnes Barcena. She has an older sister named Mary Rose. She was 10 years old when her father decided that they should leave Germany and live in the Philippines.-Career:Helga was a...
(born 1988), Filipina actress - Helga Kühn-Mengel (born 1947), German psychiatrist
- Helga KuhseHelga KuhseHelga Kuhse is an Australian utilitarian philosopher and bioethicist. From the 1970s, she was one of the first philosophers to address the ethical implications of the developments in biotechnology and biomedicine. With Peter Singer, she founded the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University...
, Australian philosopher - Helga Labs (born 1940), East German leader of a pioneer organization
- Helga LinéHelga LinéHelga Liné is a German-born Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat best known for her work in the horror genre of film. She made 132 appearances mostly in film between 1941 and 2006, but most of her work has been in Spanish cinema.-Biography:Helga Line was born as Helga Lina Stern on...
(born 1932), Portuguese-Spanish film actress and circus acrobat - Helga Lopez (born 1952), German politician (SPD)
- Helga Niessen MasthoffHelga Niessen MasthoffHelga Niessen Masthoff is a former tennis player from West Germany. Her best Grand Slam singles tournament was when she reached the 1970 French Open final, losing to Margaret Court 6–2, 6–4. She won the German Open three consecutive years from 1972 through 1974, beating Martina Navratilova in the...
(born 1941), German tennis player - Helga MeyerHelga MeyerHelga D. Meyer was a German opera singer. She taught voice at Mary Washington College for many years; in 1977 she was a singer in the opera of Salzburg. Meyer died aged 58 of colon cancer in Arlington, Virginia....
(1942-2000), German opera singer - Helga M. NovakHelga M. NovakHelga M. Novak is a German German-Icelandic writer.Novak was born in Berlin. She grew up in East Germany, studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Leipzig....
(born 1935), German-Icelandic author - Helga PedersenHelga Pedersen (Denmark)Inger Helga Pedersen was a Danish Chief Justice and politician. She served as Justice Minister of Denmark from 1950 to 1953 and was a member of the liberal party, Venstre....
(1911–1980), Danish politician - Helga PedersenHelga Pedersen (Norway)Helga Pedersen is the deputy leader for the Norwegian Labour Party.From April to October 2001, during the first cabinet Stoltenberg, she was appointed political advisor in the Ministry of Industry and Trade. In 2005, during the second cabinet Stoltenberg, she was appointed Minister of Fisheries...
(born 1973), Norwegian politician - Helga RadtkeHelga RadtkeHelga Radtke is a German track and field athlete. She competed from 1979 up until the 1990’s in the long and triple jumps. Until 1990 she represented East Germany...
(born 1962), German track and field athlete - Helga Schmedt (born 1929), German politician (SPD)
- Helga SchubertHelga SchubertHelga Schubert is a German Psychologist and author.-Life:Helga Shubert is a daughter of a librarian, who was also active in economics, and of a 1941 favored Gerichtsassessor and grew up in East Berlin...
(born 1940), German psychologist and author - Helga Schuchardt (born 1939), German politician (FDP)
- Helga Schütz (born 1937), German author
- Helga SeibertHelga SeibertHelga Seibert was a German judge. She was a judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.Shortly before her death she won the Fritz Bauer Prize from the Humanist Union...
(1939-1999), judge at Bundesverfassungsgericht - Helga SeidlerHelga SeidlerHelga Seidler is a former East German athlete who mainly competed in the women's 400 metres event....
(born 1949), German athlete and Olympic medalist - Helga StevensHelga StevensHelga Stevens is a Belgian politician and a member of the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie. She was elected as a Member of the Flemish Parliament in 2004 and as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. She was reelected for the Flemish Parliament in 2009 and as a member of the Senate in 2010. She is...
, Belgian politician - Helga Testorf, subject of Andrew Wyeth's famous paintings
- Helga TrüpelHelga TrüpelHelga Trüpel is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.-References:...
(born 1958), German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) - Helga VlahovićHelga VlahovicHelga Vlahović is a Croatian journalist, producer, and television personality, whose career spans five decades in both the former Yugoslavia and the current nation of Croatia...
(born 1945), Croatian journalist and producer - Helga Wex (1924-1986), German politician (CDU)
- Helga Zepp-LaRoucheHelga Zepp-LaRoucheHelga Zepp-LaRouche is a German political activist, wife of American political activist Lyndon LaRouche, and founder of the LaRouche movement's Schiller Institute and the German Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität party .She has run for political office several times in Germany, representing small...
(born 1948), German journalist and politician
Fictional characters
- Helga, wife of Hagar in the comic strip Hägar the HorribleHägar the HorribleHägar the Horrible is the title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dik Browne , and syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared in February 1973, and was an immediate success. Since Browne's retirement in 1988 , his son Chris Browne has continued the...
- Helga, character in the game Suikoden IV
- Helga Hufflepuff, member of Hogwarts staff in the Harry Potter books
- Helga Pataki, character on Nickelodeon's cartoon show Hey Arnold
- Helga GeerhartPrivate Helga GeerhartPrivate Helga Geerhart is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!, which ran from 1982 to 1992. She was played by the actress Kim Hartman....
, a character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo! - Helga Von Guggen, villain in Totally Spies animated television series
- Helga, a Dutch enemy character in the fighting game Human Killing MachineHuman Killing MachineHuman Killing Machine, commonly abbreviated as HKM, is a 2D fighting game developed by Tiertex and published by U.S. Gold, released in March 1989. It was touted as a sequel to Tiertex's home computer conversion of Street Fighter...