Helaine
Helaine was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,794 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Helaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 62 and 78.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Helaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Helaine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,140, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1947, the peak
Helaine peaked in 1947, when 67 girls were given it, #1,090 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,140 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,121 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,302 | 2.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,302 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,616 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,494 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,937 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,822 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,502 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,672 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | #9,240 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,722 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,619 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,406 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,591 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,791 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,863 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,959 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,835 | 23.0 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,222 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 57 | #1,504 | 30.1 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,766 | 22.3 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,694 | 22.9 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,318 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,752 | 20.8 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,306 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,281 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,795 | 18.1 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,066 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 57 | #1,338 | 29.2 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,589 | 21.1 |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,229 | 33.0 |
| 1952 | 53 | #1,324 | 28.6 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,399 | 25.0 |
| 1950 | 52 | #1,277 | 30.4 |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,146 | 36.8 |
| 1948 | 45 | #1,376 | 26.5 |
| 1947 | 67 | #1,090 | 37.8 |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,245 | 30.5 |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,145 | 36.0 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,240 | 30.9 |
| 1943 | 44 | #1,216 | 31.5 |
| 1942 | 48 | #1,145 | 35.5 |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,124 | 36.4 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,323 | 28.0 |
| 1939 | 40 | #1,152 | 36.5 |
| 1938 | 65 | #871 | 58.9 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,512 | 23.5 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,610 | 21.1 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,042 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,124 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,243 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 26 | #1,500 | 24.4 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,648 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,475 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,641 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,858 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,615 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,782 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,212 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,878 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,212 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 15 | #2,424 | 12.5 |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,555 | 11.4 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,442 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,187 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,645 | 6.9 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,882 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,728 | 10.5 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,166 | 9.0 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,355 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Helaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Helaine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Helaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Helaine, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 61% of the 1,794 Americans ever recorded as Helaine. The median Helaine alive today is 71 years old; half are between 62 and 78.
The 2020 Census counted 1,402 people named Helaine (1,398 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,254 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 195 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 659 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 204 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 22 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
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).
Where are babies named Helaine born?
The states with the most babies named Helaine are New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey and Massachusetts are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 690 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| New Jersey | 54 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 37 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Helaine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Helaine is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Helaine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,973 babies since 1880, Helaine is the second most given (4.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 84 babies recorded by SSA was a Helaine (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Helaine
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 Helaine and names like it
- Compare Helaine and HeleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sHelaine peaked in 1947.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Helaine since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Helaine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Helaine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.