Helga

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Helga: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Helga: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #58, and it stood at #439 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
81times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#58highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in Norway · 1945–2025

View as table

Norway · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#58
1946	#66
1947	#69
1948	#73
1949	#63
1950	#67
1951	#85
1952	#83
1953	#71
1954	#82
1955	#82
1956	#97
1957	#88
1958	#91
1959	#116
1960	#118
1961	#108
1962	#101
1963	#106
1964	#122
1965	#137
1966	#142
1967	#143
1968	#177
1969	#153
1970	#157
1971	#186
1972	#167
1973	#159
1974	#179
1975	#195
1976	#228
1977	#217
1978	#183
1979	#227
1980	#177
1981	#191
1982	#238
1983	#234
1984	#185
1985	#262
1986	#220
1987	#276
1988	#234
1989	#261
1990	#275
1991	#288
1992	#384
1993	#267
1994	#408
1995	#316
1996	#407
1997	#284
1998	#503
1999	#512
2000	#422
2001	#331
2002	#395
2003	#454
2005	#499
2006	#560
2007	#515
2008	#552
2009	#556
2010	#522
2013	#419
2016	#517
2022	#413
2024	#487
2025	#439

VerifiedSource: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name.Confidence: high.

See all Norway names · Source: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name

What the data shows

FallingNorway · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 70 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 1977: #217 among girls in Norway, #518 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #58 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #58 among girls in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #439 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Helga appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 70 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 2,337 births with the name.

Helga across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Helga's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#58 (1945)	#58 (1945)	#439 (2025)	70 of 81	2,337 (1945–2025)	108 (1946)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#372 (1964)	#297 (1965)	#518 (1977)	11 of 14	41 (1964–1977)	5 (1965)

Helga by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Helga in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	487	5 of 10	97
1950s	699	10 of 10	70
1960s	413	10 of 10	41
1970s	280	10 of 10	28
1980s	237	10 of 10	24
1990s	122	10 of 10	12
2000s	63	9 of 10	7
2010s	20	3 of 10	7
2020s	16	3 of 10	5

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 97 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1950 and 1951, when recorded births fell by 27, from 97 to 70.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Helga appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #58 in Norway in 1945.

Helga's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	Norway	female	#439	6	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#487	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#413	6	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#517	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#419	9	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#522	6	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#556	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#552	5	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#515	6	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#560	5	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#499	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#454	7	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#395	9	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#331	12	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#422	8	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#512	6	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#503	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#284	14	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#407	9	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#316	13	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#408	9	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#267	18	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#384	11	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#288	17	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#275	19	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#261	20	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#234	25	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#276	18	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#220	24	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#262	18	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#185	30	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#234	21	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#238	21	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#191	29	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#177	31	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#227	22	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#183	29	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#217	22	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#228	20	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#195	26	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#179	31	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#159	37	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#167	33	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#186	27	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#157	33	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#153	35	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#177	27	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#143	36	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#142	36	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#137	37	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#122	43	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#106	55	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#101	54	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#108	49	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#118	41	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#116	41	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#91	61	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#88	66	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#97	58	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#82	71	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#82	72	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#71	91	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#83	72	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#85	70	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#67	97	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#63	94	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#73	84	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#69	99	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#66	108	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#58	102	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#518	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	5	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	5	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#351	5	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#393	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#380	3	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#297	5	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified

Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 70 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #58, first reached in 1945.

It held a top-100 place in 14 years, 14 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 108 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 6 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Helena · #63, 80y
Helene · #7, 81y
Helge · #12, 81y
Helia · #3148, 12y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anja · #63, 70y
Benedicte · #63, 67y
Inge · #52, 67y
Roald · #64, 68y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Arnfinn · #58, 52y
Sølvi · #58, 56y
Ali · #57, 80y
Edvard · #59, 80y

Helga was ranked #58 in Norway · Girls in 1945. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Helga and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Helga without appearing here.

Helga moved ahead of

Wenche Compare
In 1995 they stood at #316 and #310 in Norway · Girls; by 1996 that had become #407 and #612.
Grethe Compare
In 2000 they stood at #422 and #394 in Norway · Girls; by 2001 that had become #331 and #492.
Gunn Compare
In 2000 they stood at #422 and #421 in Norway · Girls; by 2001 that had become #331 and #447.
Martine Compare
In 1973 they stood at #471 and #471 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1974 that had become #393 and #490.

Moved ahead of Helga

Hedvig Compare
In 1997 they stood at #284 and #345 in Norway · Girls; by 1998 that had become #503 and #231.
Lily Compare
In 2005 they stood at #499 and #555 in Norway · Girls; by 2006 that had become #560 and #290.
Isabelle Compare
In 1997 they stood at #284 and #328 in Norway · Girls; by 1998 that had become #503 and #239.
Sienna Compare
In 2005 they stood at #499 and #616 in Norway · Girls; by 2006 that had become #560 and #309.

Moved the opposite way to Helga

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 while Ada went from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 while Alma went from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 while Elise went from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 while Ella went from #137 to #4.

Moved the same way as Helga

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 and Anita from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 and Åse from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Helga went from #58 to #439 and Aud from #13 to #427.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #58 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Helga

Helga at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Helga across 2 official records

Helga by decade in Norway · Girls

Helga appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Helga and the names beside it

Helga moved ahead of

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Helga at a glance

Helga across 2 official records

Helga by decade in Norway · Girls

Helga appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Helga

Helga and the names beside it

Helga moved ahead of

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