Name
Helga's middle name never was revealed in the show except by her initial, but in one of the chats Craig Bartlett stated that the initial "G" stands for "Geraldine" and is a tribute to former Nickelodeon executive Geraldine Laybourne. In the series, Helga is apparently named after her older sister Olga Pataki. The names Olga and Helga are variants (respectively, Russian and German) of the same name. Thus Saint Olga, a princess of Kievan Rus', was called "Olga" by her Slavic subjects and "Helga" by Varangian ones. Her surname, Pataki, is originally a Hungarian surname, Patak ("brook", in Hungarian).
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