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Hellen

#1,800 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Helen

Hellen has been given to 8,353 babies in the U.S. since 1883. In 2025 it ranked #1,800 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 195 recorded.

Babies named Hellen, 2025

1 in 29,600

Hellen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hellen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Helen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hellen means

Hellen is a variant of Helen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hellen → Helen → Helena → Ἑλένη. The family’s meaning is “to shine, warm, smoulder, burn”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements swel-.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,353 girls were recorded with the name Hellen between 1883 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 195 in 1924; its best national rank was #510 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,204 in 2020 to #1,800 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,328 in 2015 to #1,800 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hellen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,600
112 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,800
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,518 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hellen 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 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hellen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hellens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hellen was born before 1939 — so the typical Hellen is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,256
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Choose a decade

1920s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (1,668).

Is Hellen 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
−158
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+404
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+528
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.4%
Peak was 1924 (195)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#510
1924

Spellings of Hellen

Hellen is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 61.6% against Hellen's 0.50%.

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 Hellen is used

Across 2016–2025, Hellen was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 14,217 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 7,143
  2. 2Florida1 in 9,091
  3. 3Texas1 in 10,000
  4. 4New York1 in 11,111
  5. 5Virginia1 in 12,500
  6. 6California1 in 14,286
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 20,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Hellen around the world

Where Hellen 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
    2017–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1967–2019
    #5,757
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #2,587
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1944–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Hellen

People whose public names include Hellen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hellen in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Hellen. Linked forms have their own page here.

HelenHeleenHelle

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Hellen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,800
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 404
Best rank ever
#510
1924
Peak year
1924
195 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,353
Count in 2025
112

Names similar to Hellen

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

HeleneKaylenHelenaMarlenJaylenHelenBelenJoellenHelanaHelinaHelainaKellenTaylenHeloiseAshlenHelgaHaylenHelaineMaylenRaylenAyelenMagdalenKalenMailen

Names with a curve like Hellen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hellen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RomaNovellaMagdaleneBethelElouiseGeorgianaLeonoraManuelaWinonaRosalineLeoraAlene

Sibling names for Hellen

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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