Helyn
Helyn was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,084 Americans have been recorded with it between 1897 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Helyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Helyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,449, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
62 babies in 1917, the peak
Helyn peaked in 1917, when 62 girls were given it, #884 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,449 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,202 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,112 | 3.7 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,930 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,142 | 2.6 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,948 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,609 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,295 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,661 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,272 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 7 | #4,895 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,082 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,282 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,725 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,299 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,018 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,218 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,508 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,506 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,652 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,220 | 6.8 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,104 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,820 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,791 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,021 | 8.2 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,225 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,548 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,633 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,459 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,148 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,862 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,476 | 11.5 |
| 1929 | 19 | #1,911 | 17.0 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,519 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,973 | 16.8 |
| 1926 | 45 | #1,139 | 38.0 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,589 | 23.0 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,252 | 32.8 |
| 1923 | 52 | #1,061 | 43.1 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,348 | 29.1 |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,103 | 38.9 |
| 1920 | 57 | #972 | 47.6 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,145 | 37.2 |
| 1918 | 55 | #972 | 47.5 |
| 1917 | 62 | #884 | 57.3 |
| 1916 | 52 | #954 | 49.8 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,064 | 40.7 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,206 | 34.1 |
| 1913 | 31 | #968 | 49.6 |
| 1912 | 32 | #897 | 57.3 |
| 1911 | 18 | #1,046 | 43.0 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,290 | 32.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,064 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,748 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,443 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,184 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,205 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,307 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,374 | 30.5 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,707 | 21.5 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,207 | 34.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Helyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Helyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Helyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Helyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 152 Americans named Helyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 68 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 405 people named Helyn (404 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 1,038,100 babies since 1880, Helyn is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 796 babies recorded by SSA was a Helyn (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 Helyn
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 Helyn and names like it
- Compare Helyn and HelenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHelyn peaked in 1917.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Helyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Helyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Helyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.