Helga
Below 5 births
About Helga
A traditional Nordic name, Helga was extremely popular throughout Scandinavia in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In Germany, it was a Top 10 pick from 1924 to 1943. And it still ranks in the Icelandic Top 50 today.
In the English-speaking world, Helga has been associated with a series of unfortunate characters in popular culture, from the wife of Hägar the Horrible in the comic strip of the same name, to Helga Pataki from the kids' TV show Hey Arnold!. But more recent, more positive Helgas – like Helga Hufflepuff, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, and a character in the drama series Vikings – could redeem the name.
Helga's Russian cognate, Olga, is a classic there, and still ranks in the Russian Top 50 today.
Pronounced HEL-guh.
As of October 2026, Helga ranked #15995 in US births in 2020 SSA, peaked at #572 in 1899.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
World rankings
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Helga on lists
Famous Helgas
- 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
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