first name
HELENE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 19,118 people named Helene, 84.4% reported their origin as White, 7% as Black and 3.3% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Helene peaked in 1918, when 728 babies got the name.
At least 33,334 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Helene by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #406. The largest share of babies named Helene, 33.4%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Helene is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Helene has been most common in New York (4×), Pennsylvania (2.8×), and New Jersey (2.6×), and least common in Tennessee (0.06×).
26,033 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Helene, most common first.
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