Helene
Helene is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 40 births. Its best rank was 227th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 400.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918728 births
- Best rank
- #227in 1916
- Since 1880
- 33,291people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,291 girls have been named Helene in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 728 births.
The name has all but left use: 40 births in 2024, against 728 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Helene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 282 | |
| 1890s | 807 | |
| 1900s | 1,367 | |
| 1910s | 5,363 | |
| 1920s | 5,519 | |
| 1930s | 4,404 | |
| 1940s | 4,933 | |
| 1950s | 4,738 | |
| 1960s | 2,896 | |
| 1970s | 972 | |
| 1980s | 567 | |
| 1990s | 464 | |
| 2000s | 472 | |
| 2010s | 339 | |
| 2020s | 168 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Helene was the 235th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Helene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rebapeak 1925
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Norinepeak 1920
- Freidapeak 1947
- Francespeak 1918
- Irmapeak 1920
- Avispeak 1920
- Margaretpeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.