Hellen

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Hellen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 126 births. Its best rank was 510th, in 1924.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1260.01% of girls
Peak year: 1924195 births
Best rank: #510in 1924
Since 1883: 8,240people given the name

Babies named Hellen, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

8,240 girls have been named Hellen in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 195 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 63 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Hellen
1880s	53
1890s	153
1900s	252
1910s	916
1920s	1,668
1930s	1,191
1940s	864
1950s	531
1960s	296
1970s	184
1980s	182
1990s	231
2000s	484
2010s	722
2020s	513

In 1924, its biggest year

Hellen was the 510th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.

Names that rose and fell with Hellen

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.