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Female Name
Usage
Old Norse
Swedish
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Origin and Meaning
Old Norse hel = 'death', 'realm of the dead' [1] [2]
Related Names
Grammar
- Swedish |
Nominative: |
Hel
|
Genitive: |
Hels
|
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Norse Myghology
Statistics
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Country | Commonness
| Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ |
|
| as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& |
---|
Greenland[6] |
|
0 |
161 |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
Sweden[7] |
|
4 |
16 |
4 |
16 |
0 |
0 |
Denmark[8] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Norway[9] |
|
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
0 |
n.a. |
Finland[10] |
|
n.a. |
1 |
n.a. |
1 |
0 |
0 |
#: 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. |
No recent statistics trend found in databases for Hel.
References
- ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
- ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
- ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
- ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi