Meaning not yet researched.
Hellen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 112 in 2025. Its best rank was #510 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #510 in 1924; #1,800 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hellen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,800 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #510.
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Hellen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 112 girls in 2025. Peak: #510 in 1924 · most girls in one year: 195 (1924).
In 2025, 112 US girls were named Hellen, making it the 1,800th most common girls’ name of the year, down 158 places from #1,642 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 126 girls named Hellen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #510, reached in 1924. That year also had the most girls given the name: 195. For comparison, it was #2,328 in 2015 and #1,167 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hellen in 142 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 8,353 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,668 babies named Hellen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 963 US girls were named Hellen; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 142. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,351 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hellen ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #890 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Helen (1,027,307 babies since 1880), Helene (33,334 babies since 1880) and Helyn (1,084 babies since 1880).
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.
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.
No nicknames listed for Hellen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 5 | #890 | #824 |
| California | 20 | #1,253 | #1,676 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,435 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,474 | #1,296 |
| Texas | 16 | #1,491 | #2,106 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,491 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,215 | #2,074 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,800 | — | — |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,642 | — | — |
| 2023 | 142 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,162 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,204 | — | — |
| 2019 | 91 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2018 | 77 | #2,368 | — | — |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 2016 | 91 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2015 | 80 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,204 | — | — |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,579 | — | — |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,960 | — | — |
| 2010 | 49 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,805 | — | — |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,814 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,612 | — | — |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,236 | — | — |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,542 | — | — |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,477 | — | — |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,786 | — | — |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,396 | — | — |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,930 | — | — |
| 1993 | 23 | #4,438 | — | — |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,425 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,116 | — | — |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,731 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,540 | — | — |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,040 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,464 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,562 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,468 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,403 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,205 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,904 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,314 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,111 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,994 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,408 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,146 | — | — |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,502 | — | — |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,791 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 1962 | 38 | #1,867 | — | — |
| 1961 | 33 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,853 | — | — |
| 1956 | 57 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1954 | 51 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1953 | 58 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1952 | 54 | #1,304 | — | — |
| 1951 | 77 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1950 | 63 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1949 | 69 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1948 | 74 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1947 | 79 | #997 | — | — |
| 1946 | 96 | #845 | — | — |
| 1945 | 88 | #806 | — | — |
| 1944 | 91 | #804 | — | — |
| 1943 | 89 | #826 | — | — |
| 1942 | 92 | #795 | — | — |
| 1941 | 89 | #761 | — | — |
| 1940 | 97 | #709 | — | — |
| 1939 | 86 | #736 | — | — |
| 1938 | 111 | #651 | — | — |
| 1937 | 122 | #609 | — | — |
| 1936 | 99 | #663 | — | — |
| 1935 | 101 | #654 | — | — |
| 1934 | 116 | #614 | — | — |
| 1933 | 118 | #596 | — | — |
| 1932 | 139 | #552 | — | — |
| 1931 | 155 | #531 | — | — |
| 1930 | 144 | #567 | — | — |
| 1929 | 148 | #562 | — | — |
| 1928 | 161 | #549 | — | — |
| 1927 | 148 | #583 | — | — |
| 1926 | 166 | #544 | — | — |
| 1925 | 170 | #550 | — | — |
| 1924 | 195 | #510 | — | — |
| 1923 | 178 | #531 | — | — |
| 1922 | 171 | #544 | — | — |
| 1921 | 156 | #578 | — | — |
| 1920 | 175 | #536 | — | — |
| 1919 | 148 | #567 | — | — |
| 1918 | 152 | #579 | — | — |
| 1917 | 107 | #659 | — | — |
| 1916 | 107 | #660 | — | — |
| 1915 | 109 | #629 | — | — |
| 1914 | 73 | #682 | — | — |
| 1913 | 56 | #697 | — | — |
| 1912 | 65 | #609 | — | — |
| 1911 | 43 | #661 | — | — |
| 1910 | 56 | #545 | — | — |
| 1909 | 29 | #752 | — | — |
| 1908 | 21 | #862 | — | — |
| 1907 | 33 | #659 | — | — |
| 1906 | 33 | #627 | — | — |
| 1905 | 30 | #646 | — | — |
| 1904 | 24 | #717 | — | — |
| 1903 | 26 | #660 | — | — |
| 1902 | 20 | #782 | — | — |
| 1901 | 18 | #782 | — | — |
| 1900 | 18 | #897 | — | — |
| 1899 | 18 | #772 | — | — |
| 1898 | 17 | #829 | — | — |
| 1897 | 16 | #807 | — | — |
| 1896 | 18 | #772 | — | — |
| 1895 | 18 | #754 | — | — |
| 1894 | 17 | #727 | — | — |
| 1893 | 15 | #776 | — | — |
| 1892 | 14 | #811 | — | — |
| 1891 | 10 | #911 | — | — |
| 1890 | 10 | #896 | — | — |
| 1889 | 16 | #650 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #892 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #676 | — | — |
| 1885 | 7 | #869 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #974 | — | — |
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).