Helaina
Helaina was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,258 among girls’ names; 1,038 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Helaina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Helaina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Helaina?
#7,258 among girls’ names, 2025
Helaina fell from #5,723 in 2015 to #7,258 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 9.3 per million.
46 babies in 2003, the peak
Helaina peaked in 2003, when 46 girls were given it, #3,198 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,258 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,749 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,296 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,697 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,005 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,071 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,265 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,804 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,944 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,688 | 13.0 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,723 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 46 | #3,451 | 25.8 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,101 | 20.5 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,979 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,945 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,433 | 18.6 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,988 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 36 | #4,304 | 19.0 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,731 | 16.1 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,751 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,898 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,284 | 25.1 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,198 | 25.2 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,423 | 15.6 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,883 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,104 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,628 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,445 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,280 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,932 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,283 | 10.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,788 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,384 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,798 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,842 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,923 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,274 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,606 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,945 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,859 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,728 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,535 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,077 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,494 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,386 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,162 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,042 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,546 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,744 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,660 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Helaina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Helaina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Helaina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Helaina, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,038 Americans ever recorded as Helaina. The median Helaina alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 854 people named Helaina (852 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 904 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 13 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 142 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 498 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 340 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,077 babies since 1880, Helaina is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 893 babies (1.7%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Helaina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Helaina and names like it
- Compare Helaina and HelenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHelaina peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Helaina since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Helaina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Helaina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.