Girls' name · since 1990
Hela
104 babies named Hela in U.S. Social Security records since 1990, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #26,680 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,703 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 104
- born since 1990
- 2020s
- peak decade
104 babies have been named Hela since 1990, making it today's #9703 girls' name.
Hela has 104 recorded births among girls since 1990, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9703 as of the latest data, more common than 44% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1990 to 2025.
- #26,680 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,703 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 104 born since 1990
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Hela ranks #26,680 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,703 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 104 born since 1990, peaking in the 2020s.
- #26,680 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,703 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 104
- born since 1990
- 2020s
- peak decade
Hela's 104 recorded births place it above 63.02% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Hela compares
104 25th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Hela's all-time total is 72% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Hela | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 104 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 21 | 19,840 |
Hela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Hela's SSA record in two at 2019 and the more recent half accounts for 60% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 40%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1990, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2018 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Hela popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1990–2025
- Peak year (2018)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Hela by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (55 births, 53% of the file).
2020s was Hela's strongest decade.
55 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Hela births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
- 2000s 12
2000s
12 births
- 2010s
2010s
32 births
- 2020s
2020s
55 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 55 births (53% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1990–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Hela draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.