Helena — #414 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Helena

The Social Security Administration has registered 39,561 babies named Helena between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Helena currently holds the #414 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 754 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Helena performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 5,878 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Helena shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,959 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Helena in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Helena 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 39,561 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.