Helga

Helga is a female first name. He comes from the Swedish word hailac ( healthy ) or Helig ( holy ).

Variants are: Helgi, Hilga, Ilga; the Russian variant is Olga, the Belarusian Wolha, the Ukrainian Olha.

The male forms of the name are Heligoland and Helge.

Dissemination

The name Helga was gradually popular in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. From the mid- twenties Helga was among the ten most popular girls name. In his thirties he was even a few times at number one on frequency statistics. From the early forties his popularity went first gradually, from the fifties sharply. Today children Helga are barely mentioned.

Name-day

September 11

Name winners

  • Helga Amesberger (* 1960), Austrian ethnologist, sociologist and political scientist
  • Helga Anders (1948-1986), German - Austrian actress
  • Helga Bayertz, German presenter
  • Helga Brauer (1936-1991), popular singer in the GDR
  • Helga Daub (* 1942), German politician (FDP)
  • Helga Deen (1925-1943), murdered by the Nazis Jewess
  • Helga Einsele (1910-2005), German criminologist, prison director and Strafrechtsreformerin
  • Helga Feddersen (1930-1990), German actress
  • Helga Fischer ( * 1949 ), German track and field athlete and Olympic champion
  • Helga Gießelmann (* 1949), German politician (SPD )
  • Helga Goetze ( Helga Sophia ) ( 1922-2008 ), German artist, writer and political activist
  • Helga Göring (1922-2010), German actress
  • Helga Guitton, German radio presenter
  • Helga Hahnemann (1937-1991), German entertainer, comedienne and actress
  • Helga Hirsch ( born 1948 ), German journalist and correspondent
  • Helga Hoffmann ( born 1937 ), German track and field athlete
  • Helga Klein ( born 1931 ), German track and field athlete
  • Helga Koenigsdorf (* 1938), German mathematician and writer
  • Helga Kühn- Mengel (* 1947), German psychologist
  • Helga Labs ( born 1940 ), chairman of a pioneer organization in the GDR
  • Helga Lopez ( born 1952 ), German politician (SPD )
  • Helga Masthoff (* 1941), German tennis player
  • Helga Neuner ( born 1940 ), German actress
  • Helga M. Novak (1935-2013), German - Icelandic writer
  • Helga Schmedt (* 1929), German politician (SPD )
  • Helga Schnierle (1924-1994), German architect
  • Helga Schubert ( born 1940 ), German psychologist and writer
  • Helga Schuchardt (* 1939), German politician (FDP)
  • Helga Schütz ( * 1937 ), German writer
  • Helga Seibert (1939-1999), Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court
  • Helga Seidler (* 1949), German track and field athlete and Olympic champion
  • Helga Steudel (* 1939), German racing driver
  • Helga Thiede (* 1940), German singer
  • Helga Timm (* 1924), German politician (SPD )
  • Helga Trüpel (* 1958), German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
  • Helga Wex (1924-1986), German politician (CDU )
  • Helga Zepp -LaRouche (* 1948), German journalist and politician

Other meanings

Helga referred

Swell

  • Female first name
Olga (name) Helge (name) Helga Niessen Masthoff
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