Heleen

Girls' name

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Helena

Heleen has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1966. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Heleen, 2017

1 in 715,000

Heleen over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heleen: meaning, origin, and history

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Helena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heleen means

Heleen belongs to the name family reached through Heleen → Helena → Ἑλένη. Its meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”.

Origin, language, and formation

Heleen is used in Dutch.

Heleen comes through Latin Helena and Ancient Greek Ἑλένη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helena and Ἑλένη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Heleen is pronounced /ɦeːˈleːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Heleen between 1966 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1966; its best national rank was #6,063 in 1966.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Heleen?

Heleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 715,000; 5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 495,893 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Heleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heleen was born before 2002 — so the typical Heleen is around 23 today.

Median birth year: 2002; About 23 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 59.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 77.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 27; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 59.3% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Heleen rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1966 (6)
Years since peak: 59; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,063; 1966

Spellings of Heleen

Heleen is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 59.5% against Heleen's <0.01%.

Helen59.5%1,024,202
Ellen16.0%275,284
Eileen11.0%189,614
Helena2.3%40,412
Aileen2.2%37,637
Helene1.9%33,334
Heaven1.8%30,361
Arleen0.73%12,611

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Heleen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #6,063; 1966
Peak year: 1966; 6 that year
First recorded: 1966
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 27
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Heleen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Helani Heliana Nureen Helaena Bareen Helsea Helany Helem Yaqeen Heleyna Helvie Heleana Heldana Safreen Avreen Gineen Helan Tyleen Soleen Nareen Helly Heleni Heloisa Helyne

Sibling names for Heleen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Rona Dawna Rosita Collette Barbra Sarita Kandy Cami

For a brother

Deron Tad Darron Theron Daron Thad Kip Tracey

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