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Helmuth

Boys' name

Variant of Helmut

Helmuth has been given to 500 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1917, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Helmuth, 1958

1 in 689,000

Helmuth over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Helmuth: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Helmut

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Helmuth means

Helmuth is a variant of Helmut.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Helmuth is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɛl.muːt/ for Helmuth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Helmuth → Helmut. The family’s proposed meaning is “helmet or healthy, whole”, recorded in the naming reference for Helmut.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helmut.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 500 boys were recorded with the name Helmuth between 1892 and 1958. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1917; its best national rank was #1,133 in 1915.

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 Helmuth?

Helmuth had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1958
1 in 689,000
6 of 4,133,550 births
Among boys only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1958
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Helmuth 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 1958 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 477,528 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Helmuth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Helmuths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Helmuth was born before 1923 — so the typical Helmuth is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
25
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1910s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (183).

Is Helmuth 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (34)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,133
1915

Where Helmuth is used

Across 1910–2025, Helmuth was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 348,179 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 25,000
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Helmuth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Helmuth around the world

Where Helmuth 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.

  • France
    1902–1959
    #1,577
    in 1959
  • South Australia
    1959–1962
    #548
    in 1962

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Helmuth by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,133
1915
Peak year
1917
34 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
1958
All-time count
500
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Helmuth

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

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Sibling names for Helmuth

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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