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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 57,807 Historical Documents with Helle on Ancestry
- 29,780 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,462 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,439 Military Records
- 3,242 Immigration Records
- 16,884 Member Trees
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Number of Helle families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Helle census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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