Helmut

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Helmut - with the variants Hellmut, Helmuth, Hellmuth - is a male given name that is almost exclusively used in Germany and Austria , but can also be traced as a family name from the 16th century .

The female form Helmute, on the other hand, is extremely rare. Another variant in Austria (Vienna and Lower Austria) is also "Helmerl".

etymology

There are two possible interpretations of the first component. Either it goes back to old German heil = healthy ( i.e. originally Heilmut ), or to hiltja = fight ( i.e. Hildemut ). Here muot means disposition.

name day

Because there is no saint Helmut, different dates are given in name day calendars:

  • February 12: based on St. Helmward (since about 950 Bishop of Minden , † February 12, 958)
  • March 29: based on St. Helmstan , referred to in some modern calendars as “St. Helmut ”: since around 838 Bishop of Winchester * in England, † March 29, around 850 in Winchester, a defender of the faith.
  • April 24th
  • 5th October
  • April 28 as a correspondence and translation to St. Vitalis (Roman)

distribution

The name was not in use before about 1800 and only gradually became more popular as a successor to Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800-1891), Chief of Staff of the Prussian Army in the three wars of unification . In the 1890s it was ranked 47th among the most popular male given names, 32nd from 1900 to 1910, 14th from 1910 to 1920, in the 1920s it was the tenth most popular male first name, in the 1930s the twelfth most popular in the 1940s it came in 18th place, in the 1950s still 26th in the popularity statistics. In the 1960s it appeared again, at rank 75, from the 1970s it is no longer among the 200 most popular male first names. In addition to the two chiefs of the General Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Elder and the Younger and the resistance fighter Helmuth James von Moltke , Helmut was the first name of a coach of the national soccer team, Helmut Schön , and of two successive German Chancellors , Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015, ruled by 1974 to 1982) and Helmut Kohl (1930–2017, ruled from 1982 to 1998).

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popularity

The first name Helmut was often given in the first half of the 20th century. In the ranking of the most popular male first names given in Germany, Helmut was among the ten most popular in the 1920s and early 1930s, but has practically gone completely out of fashion for birth cohorts since the 1970s.

year rank
1900 > 40
1910 16
1920 9
1930 7th
1940 14th
1950 13
1960 44
1970 > 98
1980 > 100
1990 > 100
2000 > 100

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Helmut  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elke Gerr: The large first name book. Humboldt-Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-581-66505-X , p. 74.
  2. ↑ Most popular German first names from 1890 to today
  3. ↑ www.beliebte-vornamen.de