Helma

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Female Female Name

Usage

Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

German short form of names containing the name element HJALM (see also -a) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Helma
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Faroese Finish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish

See also Helmi, Helmina, Hilma and Elma

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Helmuson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Helmudóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Helma
Genitive: Helmas
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Helma
Accusative: Helmu
Dative: Helmu
Genitive: Helmu
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Helma
Genitive: Helman
Partitive: Helmaa
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Helma
Accusative: Helmu
Dative: Helmu
Genitive: Helmu
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Helma
Genitive: Helmas
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Helma
Genitive: Helmas

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

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&
Sweden Sweden[9]
57 93 57 93 0 0
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
78
n.a.
78 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
13 22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Denmark Denmark[12]
19
n.a.
19
n.a.
0
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
46
n.a.
46
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
0 0
n.a.
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.

 

Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Helma (f) in Sweden in the year 1880. Swedish Regional Distribution for Helma (f)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
  3. Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  7. Málráðið: Góðkend fólkanøvn, http://www.malrad.fo/ (Name List by Faroese Language Board)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 © Nordic Names (Swedish Statistics - Regional Distribution)
  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. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  13. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/