Helga comes from the Old Norse heilagr, meaning "holy" or "blessed." The masculine form is Helgi.
Helga is widely used across Scandinavia and Germany. Helga Hufflepuff is one of the four founders of Hogwarts in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter.
Helga does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Helga reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.