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Helios

#2,367 in 2025Boys' name

Sun

Helios has been given to 466 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #2,367 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 58 recorded.

Babies named Helios, 2025

1 in 57,200

Helios over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Helios: meaning, origin, and history

Sun

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Helios means

Helios means “sun”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 466 boys were recorded with the name Helios between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 58 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,367 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,445 in 2020 to #2,367 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,605 in 2015 to #2,367 in 2025.

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.

How common is Helios?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 29,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,367
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Helios sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Helios. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Helioss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Helios was born before 2020 — so the typical Helios is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
466
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.0% of all recorded uses (261).

Is Helios 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
+520
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,078
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,238
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.76×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (58)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,367
2025

Spellings of Helios

Helios is not the most common spelling — Elias is, with 89.7% against Helios's 0.32%.

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.

Where Helios is used

Across 1910–2025, Helios was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 216,391 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Helios has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Helios around the world

Where Helios 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
    2019–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1931–2025
    #317
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #1,331
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Helios by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,367
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,078
Best rank ever
#2,367
2025
Peak year
2025
58 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
466
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Helios

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

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Sibling names for Helios

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

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