Helga

HEL-ga, HEL-yah

Scandinavian

"holy, blessed"

Helga Origin and Meaning

Variation of Elga

Helga Rank in US Top 1000

# 986 in the US

Popularity of the name Helga

• 1798 Nameberry 2025
• 38 Iceland 2024

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Famous People Named Helga

• Helga Niessen Masthoff German tennis player
• Helga Liné (born Helga Lina Stern) German,born Portuguese,Spanish actress
• Helga Mathilde Meyer German opera singer and mother of Sandra Bullock
• Helga Frier Danish actress
• Helga Krapf German,Filipina actress
• Helga Hörz German philosopher
• Helga Pedersen Norwegian politician
• Helga Zepp LaRouche, German political activist; wife of Lyndon LaRouche
• Helga Seidler German runner
• Helga Feddersen German actress
• Helga Dernesch Austrian operatic soprano
• Helga Anders Austrian actress
• Helga Testorf German model for painter Andrew Wyeth
• Helga Erika Ivertowski Hörz German philosopher and feminist
• Helga Haase German speedskater
• Helga von Cramm German,Swiss painter
• Sharon Helga Corr Irish singer of band The Corrs

The name Helga in Pop Culture

• Helga Hufflepuff character in the Harry Potter series
• Helga Geraldine Pataki character on animated series "Hey Arnold!"
• Helga Phugly character in animated series "The Oblongs"
• Helga a character in Hans Christian Andersen's "The Marsh King's Daughter"
• Helga wife of Hägar the Horrible in the newspaper comic strip
• Helga Sinclair mercenary in Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire
• Helga character in video game Suikoden IV
• Helga Geerhart character on British TV series 'Allo 'Allo!
• Helga Von Guggen character in animated television series Totally Spies
• Helga character in fighting video game Human Killing Machine
• Helga von Hinten character in Taboo (TV Series), played by Franka Potente

International Variations of the name Helga

• Helge Norwegian
• Helje Danish