Helin
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Helin has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2023, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Helin, 2023
1 in 414,000
Helin over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Helin?
Helin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,205 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Helin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Helin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Helins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Helin was born before 2010 — so the typical Helin is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 56
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.2% of all recorded uses (27).
Is Helin 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 2023 (8)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Helin
Helin is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 56.3% against Helin's <0.01%.
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.
Helin around the world
Where Helin 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,809in 2025
- Scotland2002–2002#545in 2002
- France1989–2025#1,543in 2025
- Norway1900–2025#424in 2025
- Canada2002–2020#2,936in 2020
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Helin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Helin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Helin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.