Heleena

Girls' name

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Helena

Heleena has been given to 83 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 2005, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Heleena, 2024

1 in 669,000

Heleena 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heleena: meaning, origin, and history

To shine, warm, smoulder, burn, through Helena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heleena means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Heleena is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helena and Ἑλένη.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Heleena is pronounced /ˈheleːnɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 83 girls were recorded with the name Heleena between 1989 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2005; its best national rank was #11,332 in 1989.

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 Heleena?

Heleena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Heleena 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heleena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heleenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heleena was born before 2005 — so the typical Heleena is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 37.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 78.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 83; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 37.3% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Heleena 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 2005 (7)
Years since peak: 20; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #11,332; 1989

Spellings of Heleena

Heleena is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 77.7% against Heleena's <0.01%.

Helen77.7%1,024,202
Elena8.2%108,013
Selena4.5%59,887
Helena3.1%40,412
Helene2.5%33,334
Aleena0.95%12,535
Hellen0.63%8,353
Leena0.44%5,785

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.

Heleena around the world

Where Heleena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2015
#5,730
in 2015
South Australia
1944–1998
#710
in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Heleena 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: #11,332; 1989
Peak year: 2005; 7 that year
First recorded: 1989
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 83
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Heleena

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

Helaena Hellena Heliana Heloisa Zareena Helayna Adreena Kailena Helenna Aileena Helem Naveena Adilena Eileena Celaena Jaylena Helayne Ahleena Heldana Pualena Elaena Analena Kyleena Heloise

Sibling names for Heleena

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

Jaci Yahaira Pilar Anisa Jamya Yajaira Anjali Anneliese

For a brother

Braulio Johnpaul Jamarion Kenyon Paulo Yair Kadin Lavon

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