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Helon

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Helon has been given to 671 babies in the U.S. since 1893. 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 1924, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Helon, 1958

1 in 591,000

Helon over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Helon: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Hebrew and Greek

What Helon means

Helon has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Origin, language, and formation

Helon is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew and Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Helen, Helena and Ἑλένη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 666 girls were recorded with the name Helon between 1893 and 1958. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,175 in 1901.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Helon between 1929 and 1929. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1929; its best national rank was #4,237 in 1929.

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 Helon?

Helon 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 591,000
7 of 4,133,550 births
Among girls only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1958
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
409,310 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Helon 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 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 409,310 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Helon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Helons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Helon was born before 1925 — so the typical Helon is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
42.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
26
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1920s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (281).

Is Helon 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 1924 (36)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,175
1901

Spellings of Helon

Helon is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 86.9% against Helon's 0.06%.

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 Helon is used

Across 1910–2025, Helon was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 163,539 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 50,000
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 50,000
  3. 3Tennessee1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Helon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Helon 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
#1,175
1901
Peak year
1924
36 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
1958
All-time count
666
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,237
1929
Peak year
1929
5 that year
First recorded
1929
Last recorded
1929
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Helon

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

HellonHelanaHelinaHeliaHelmaTalonHeloiseHelynHelemHelmiHelainaHelaynaFalonHelgaDillonShalonHelviHelaHellenaHeloisaWaylonKaylonHellenHelane

Sibling names for Helon

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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