Helaine — girls' name

What the Data Says About Helaine

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,794 babies named Helaine between 1909 and 2021, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Helaine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1947, when 67 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Helaine performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 479 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Helaine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 690 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Helaine in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Helaine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,794 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.