Hel

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Female Name

Usage

Old Norse

Origin and Meaning

Old Norse hel = 'death, realm of the dead' ^{[1] [2]}

Further Information

In the Norse Mythology, Hel is a giantess and a literary personification of the realm of the dead. She is the daughter of Loki and Angrboða. Her siblings are the wolf Fenrir and the snake Jǫrmungandr. She is the ruler of the realm of the dead, which is named Helheim. ^{[3] [4]}

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[5]		2	5	0	1
Denmark[6]		0	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[7]		0	0	0	0
Finland[8]		0	0	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.

Sources: ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Leiv Heggstad, Finn Hødnebø og Erik Simensen: Norrøn Ordbok (1997)
2. ↑ Ferdinand Holthausen: Vergleichendes und Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altwestnordischen (1948)
3. ↑ Lars Magnar Enoksen: Norrøne guder og myter (2008)
4. ↑ Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)
5. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
6. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
7. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi