Hella

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Female Female Name

Usage

Denmark Danish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Iceland Icelandic
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of names beginning with Hel-, especially Helga and Helene, sometimes also Hilda [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Related Names

Hela
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Hele
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Heli
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Hell
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Hella
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Helle
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Danish Finish Greenlandic Norwegian Old Danish Swedish
Helli
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Hellu
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Helly
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Hellä
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Helu
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Hely
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See also Helja, Helka, Hellikki

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Helluson Iceland

Female

Helludóttir Iceland

Combinations

For combinations see HEL (name element)

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Hella
Genitive: Hellas
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Hella
Genitive: Hellan
Partitive: Hellaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Hella
Accusative: Hellu
Dative: Hellu
Genitive: Hellu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Hella
Genitive: Hellas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Hella
Genitive: Hellas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Hella Joof (born 1 November 1962), Danish actress and director

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Denmark Denmark[8]
295
n.a.
295
n.a.
0
n.a.
Sweden Sweden[9]
79 143 79 143 0 0
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
52
n.a.
52 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
2 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 6
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
58
n.a.
58
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: 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 Hella.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1963)
  7. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  8. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  9. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  10. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no