Hellon
Hellon was last recorded in 1958, when 5 babies were given it; 417 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hellon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hellon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,441, in 1958; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1921, the peak
Hellon peaked in 1921, when 23 girls were given it, #1,835 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 5 | #6,441 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,880 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,900 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,700 | 5.3 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,795 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,242 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,393 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,314 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,369 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,326 | 7.0 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 11 | #2,651 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,020 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,514 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,956 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,273 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,485 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 15 | #2,095 | 14.9 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,710 | 19.7 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,861 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,052 | 15.1 |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,045 | 15.2 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,440 | 12.1 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,378 | 12.6 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,848 | 18.6 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,540 | 11.5 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,246 | 13.6 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,221 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,332 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,835 | 18.7 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,399 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,570 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,990 | 16.4 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,487 | 7.4 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,729 | 10.5 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,743 | 10.5 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,769 | 10.8 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,567 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hellon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hellon has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hellon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hellon, and how old are they?
An estimated 66 Americans named Hellon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 111 people named Hellon (111 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 1,038,100 babies since 1880, Hellon is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 796 babies recorded by SSA was a Hellon (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 Hellon
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 Hellon and names like it
- Compare Hellon and HelenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHellon peaked in 1921.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hellon since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Hellon.
- Names starting with HMost given first.