Meaning not yet researched.
Helene: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 42 in 2025. Its best rank was #227 in 1916.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #227 in 1916; #3,602 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Helene in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,602 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1916, at #227.
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Helene: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 42 girls in 2025. Peak: #227 in 1916 · most girls in one year: 728 (1918).
In 2025, 42 US girls were named Helene, making it the 3,602nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 177 places from #3,779 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 40 girls named Helene in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #227, reached in 1916. The most girls given the name in a single year was 728, in 1918. For comparison, it was #3,727 in 2015 and #349 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Helene in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 17 babies with the name. In all, 33,334 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,519 babies named Helene.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 331 US girls were named Helene; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,268 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Helen (1,027,307 babies since 1880), Ellen (276,029 babies since 1880), Lena (146,805 babies since 1880) and Elena (108,117 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Helayne are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ella, Ellen, Ellie and Lena.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Nynorsk. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Helayne (168).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,140 | — | — |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,629 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,891 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,955 | — | — |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,519 | — | — |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,428 | — | — |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,291 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,727 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,735 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,056 | — | — |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,727 | — | — |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,799 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,430 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,474 | — | — |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,936 | — | — |
| 2003 | 102 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,419 | — | — |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,331 | — | — |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1994 | 46 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 1993 | 51 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1991 | 60 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1990 | 52 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1988 | 48 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1987 | 54 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,263 | — | — |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1981 | 79 | #1,520 | — | — |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1979 | 80 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1976 | 90 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1974 | 100 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1973 | 112 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1972 | 108 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1971 | 123 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1970 | 135 | #944 | — | — |
| 1969 | 155 | #830 | — | — |
| 1968 | 157 | #805 | — | — |
| 1967 | 185 | #720 | — | — |
| 1966 | 242 | #611 | — | — |
| 1965 | 286 | #562 | — | — |
| 1964 | 342 | #532 | — | — |
| 1963 | 368 | #509 | — | — |
| 1962 | 345 | #525 | — | — |
| 1961 | 384 | #496 | — | — |
| 1960 | 432 | #467 | — | — |
| 1959 | 454 | #455 | — | — |
| 1958 | 479 | #430 | — | — |
| 1957 | 453 | #442 | — | — |
| 1956 | 451 | #433 | — | — |
| 1955 | 483 | #398 | — | — |
| 1954 | 461 | #403 | — | — |
| 1953 | 454 | #399 | — | — |
| 1952 | 502 | #370 | — | — |
| 1951 | 494 | #360 | — | — |
| 1950 | 508 | #349 | — | — |
| 1949 | 512 | #342 | — | — |
| 1948 | 522 | #340 | — | — |
| 1947 | 581 | #326 | — | — |
| 1946 | 530 | #324 | — | — |
| 1945 | 458 | #315 | — | — |
| 1944 | 456 | #316 | — | — |
| 1943 | 462 | #329 | — | — |
| 1942 | 533 | #296 | — | — |
| 1941 | 450 | #305 | — | — |
| 1940 | 429 | #302 | — | — |
| 1939 | 416 | #301 | — | — |
| 1938 | 444 | #300 | — | — |
| 1937 | 453 | #291 | — | — |
| 1936 | 445 | #288 | — | — |
| 1935 | 400 | #309 | — | — |
| 1934 | 397 | #313 | — | — |
| 1933 | 405 | #307 | — | — |
| 1932 | 455 | #295 | — | — |
| 1931 | 439 | #305 | — | — |
| 1930 | 550 | #272 | — | — |
| 1929 | 483 | #299 | — | — |
| 1928 | 506 | #295 | — | — |
| 1927 | 500 | #298 | — | — |
| 1926 | 511 | #297 | — | — |
| 1925 | 488 | #300 | — | — |
| 1924 | 544 | #282 | — | — |
| 1923 | 570 | #270 | — | — |
| 1922 | 613 | #262 | — | — |
| 1921 | 624 | #264 | — | — |
| 1920 | 680 | #252 | — | — |
| 1919 | 664 | #249 | — | — |
| 1918 | 728 | #235 | — | — |
| 1917 | 721 | #230 | — | — |
| 1916 | 718 | #227 | — | — |
| 1915 | 682 | #231 | — | — |
| 1914 | 538 | #231 | — | — |
| 1913 | 425 | #235 | — | — |
| 1912 | 378 | #232 | — | — |
| 1911 | 283 | #232 | — | — |
| 1910 | 226 | #255 | — | — |
| 1909 | 176 | #272 | — | — |
| 1908 | 138 | #302 | — | — |
| 1907 | 160 | #275 | — | — |
| 1906 | 149 | #274 | — | — |
| 1905 | 146 | #273 | — | — |
| 1904 | 121 | #293 | — | — |
| 1903 | 123 | #283 | — | — |
| 1902 | 94 | #322 | — | — |
| 1901 | 122 | #267 | — | — |
| 1900 | 138 | #277 | — | — |
| 1899 | 89 | #317 | — | — |
| 1898 | 98 | #319 | — | — |
| 1897 | 108 | #273 | — | — |
| 1896 | 100 | #291 | — | — |
| 1895 | 87 | #312 | — | — |
| 1894 | 78 | #314 | — | — |
| 1893 | 68 | #324 | — | — |
| 1892 | 54 | #361 | — | — |
| 1891 | 68 | #303 | — | — |
| 1890 | 57 | #339 | — | — |
| 1889 | 44 | #364 | — | — |
| 1888 | 39 | #388 | — | — |
| 1887 | 31 | #394 | — | — |
| 1886 | 33 | #372 | — | — |
| 1885 | 28 | #386 | — | — |
| 1884 | 26 | #392 | — | — |
| 1883 | 24 | #378 | — | — |
| 1882 | 20 | #412 | — | — |
| 1881 | 20 | #377 | — | — |
| 1880 | 17 | #412 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).