Hellena
Hellena was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,695 among girls’ names; 194 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hellena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hellena?
#9,695 among girls’ names, 2025
Hellena rose from #17,448 in 2015 to #9,695 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 6.2 per million.
13 babies in 2022, the peak
Hellena peaked in 2022, when 13 girls were given it, #8,221 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,695 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,097 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,861 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,221 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,079 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,882 | 5.3 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,448 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,541 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,673 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,230 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 6 | #11,333 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,729 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,527 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,642 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,938 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,746 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,183 | 5.2 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,569 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,874 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,878 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,126 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,816 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,440 | 2.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,878 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,628 | 2.8 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,882 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,186 | 4.2 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,337 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,449 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,485 | 5.3 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,125 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hellena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hellena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hellena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hellena, and how old are they?
An estimated 153 Americans named Hellena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 4 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 262 people named Hellena (262 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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).
How common is the spelling Hellena?
Hellena is a less common spelling of Helena: SSA has recorded 194 Hellena and 40,412 Helena since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 76,526 babies since 1880, Hellena is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 935 babies (1.1%), the fifth most given that year.
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.
More about Hellena and names like it
- Compare Hellena and HelenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHellena peaked in 2022.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hellena since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Hellena.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hellena alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.