Helga
Helga is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 572nd, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 196154 births
- Best rank
- #572in 1899
- Since 1882
- 2,208people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,208 girls have been named Helga in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 54 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 54 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1960s alone account for 15%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Helga | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 71 | |
| 1890s | 217 | |
| 1900s | 167 | |
| 1910s | 324 | |
| 1920s | 231 | |
| 1930s | 222 | |
| 1940s | 145 | |
| 1950s | 282 | |
| 1960s | 338 | |
| 1970s | 161 | |
| 1980s | 29 | |
| 1990s | 16 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Helga was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1961 were Mary, Lisa, Susan, Linda and Karen. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Helga
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dagmarpeak 1915
- Dulciepeak 1968
- Friedapeak 1916
- Iciepeak 1915
- Florriepeak 1921
- Elfriedapeak 1917
- Flossiepeak 1919
- Rossiepeak 1919
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.