Helmuth
About 500 American babies have been named Helmuth since 1892, most of them around 1917. It has not appeared in the national data since 1958. About 40 Helmuths are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 79.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Helmuth
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 500
- Estimated living today
- 40
- Median age today
- 79
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 1,152nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1892
How old the living Helmuths are
born that year still alive today
Of the 500 babies given the name since 1892, about 40 are alive — 8 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1946 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.
Notable Helmuths
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891)German Field Marshal
- Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848–1916)Chief of the German General Staff
- Helmuth Weidling (1891–1955)Wehrmacht general
- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907–1945)German resistance fighter
- Helmuth Koinigg (1948–1974)Austrian Formula One driver
- Helmuth Plessner (1892–1985)German philosopher and sociologist
- Helmuth Rilling (1933–2026)German choral conductor
- Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898–1947)German general
People named Helmuth with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Helmuth is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Helmuth is most concentrated in South Dakota (73.5×), Wisconsin (16.4×), Texas (4.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular boys’ names the year Helmuth peaked:
Helmuth elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Helmuth | 245 | 274th |
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.
Helmuth among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Helmuth | — | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Helmuth against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.