Hege

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Norwegian dialectal variant form of Helga ^[1]

Related Names

Hege	♀
Hæge	♀

Name Day

Norway

30 September

Further Information

Often used in double names like Hege-Anita, Hege-Marie, Hege-Kristin etc.

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 18th century ^[1]

Predominant Regional Usage

Norway: Vest-Telemark, Aust-Agder, Setesdal ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[2]		8514	13029	0	0
Sweden[3]		103	130	0	0
Denmark[4]		60	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	15	n.a	6
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[3][4][2][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[2]:

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [2] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi