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Helana

Helana reached its high-water mark in 2006 at number 5,383, and has been recorded 566 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 550 Helanas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Helana

By the numbers

Total US births
566
Estimated living today
550
Median age today
23
Peak year
2006
Best rank
5,383rd
Rank in 2025
13,208th
First recorded
1947

How old the living Helanas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 566 babies given the name since 1947, about 550 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Names of 2006

The most popular girls’ names the year Helana peaked:

All the names of 2006

Helana elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Helana 22 3,116th
France girls Hélana +1 spelling 20 6,238th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.