Helane
Helane was last recorded in 1966, when 6 babies were given it; 174 Americans have been recorded with it between 1924 and 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Helane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Helane?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,062, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1951, the peak
Helane peaked in 1951, when 18 girls were given it, #2,417 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 6 | #6,062 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,307 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 12 | #3,952 | 6.3 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,495 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,501 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,285 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,039 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,084 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,449 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,371 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 7 | #4,754 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,648 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 18 | #2,417 | 10.0 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,598 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,438 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,833 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,223 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,848 | 5.3 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,729 | 5.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,682 | 4.7 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,707 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Helane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Helane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Helane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Helane, and how old are they?
An estimated 124 Americans named Helane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 65 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Helane (208 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 138 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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.
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 78,217 babies since 1880, Helane is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 925 babies recorded by SSA was a Helane (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 Helane
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 Helane and names like it
- Compare Helane and HelenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sHelane peaked in 1951.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Helane since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Helane.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Helane alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.