Helayne
Helayne was last recorded in 1966, when 5 babies were given it; 168 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 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 Helayne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Helayne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,934, in 1966; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1954, the peak
Helayne peaked in 1954, when 24 girls were given it, #2,204 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #6,934 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,059 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,280 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,663 | 4.7 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,366 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,502 | 3.5 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,002 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,131 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,667 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,031 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 16 | #2,969 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,882 | 8.2 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,204 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,986 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,140 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,952 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,960 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Helayne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Helayne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Helayne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Helayne, and how old are they?
An estimated 136 Americans named Helayne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (81% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 65 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 207 people named Helayne (205 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 145 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Helayne?
Helayne is a less common spelling of Helaine: SSA has recorded 168 Helayne and 1,794 Helaine since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,546 babies since 1880, Helayne is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 70 babies recorded by SSA was a Helayne (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 Helayne
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 Helayne and names like it
- Compare Helayne and HelaineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sHelayne peaked in 1954.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Helayne since 1910.
- The top names of 1954The year the most babies were named Helayne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Helayne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.