Helena

What Helena means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Helena yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #534 in 2015 to #363 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Helena?

US: Rising: up from #534 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #300 in 2015, #329 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1884, when 86 girls got the name (#201 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,911 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,933 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,491 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MA (2.62 per 1,000 girls), ME (1.93 per 1,000 girls), FL (1.03 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Helena is #363 in the US and #329 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Helena were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Halina33 US
• Helaena31 US
• Helaina15 US
• Helina14 US
• Hellena10 US
• Halona9 US
• Halana8 US
• Helayna7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Helena

Girls

• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Elaina#267Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #267 vs #951 in 2025
• Georgia#99“farmer”^*
• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Azaria#638Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1988, with 6 babies

For a brother

• Isaias#426Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #426 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Orion#334possibly “heaven's light”^*
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Solomon#422“peace”^*
• Pierce#505Form of Peter, meaning “stone, rock”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Helena’s. Rank is US 2025.