Helle Family History
Helle Name Meaning
Norwegian and Swedish: from Old Norse hella ‘flat
stone’, ‘flagstone’, ‘flat mountain’ or hellir ‘cave’. As a
Nowegian name this is generally a habitational name from any of
numerous farmsteads so named. As a Swedish name, it is generally
ornamental.English: variant spelling of Hell 1.German: topographic name from Middle High German
helle ‘hell’ (modern German Hölle), used (often in
field names) in a topographic sense to denote a hollow or a wild,
precipitous place.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Helle Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Helle families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Helle families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Helle families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Helle Family Origin
Helle Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Helle
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Helle Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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