Maryhelen — girls' name
1,020 babies named Maryhelen in U.S. Social Security records since 1914, with the highest year being 1960. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
18% of everyone ever named Maryhelen was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Maryhelen in 1960 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Maryhelen
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,020 babies named Maryhelen between 1914 and 2022, spanning 109 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maryhelen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Maryhelen performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Maryhelen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 84 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Arizona. In total, SSA state-level files list Maryhelen in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Maryhelen 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 1,020 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.
Maryhelen at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Maryhelen popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1914
- Peak year (1960)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 109 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
1,020 total births across 109 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1960 with 27 births in a single year.
Maryhelen by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 184 births that decade — 18% of Maryhelen's all-time total
Maryhelen decade highlights
- Peak decade 184 births
- Runner-up 157 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Maryhelen's strongest decade
184 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 18% of all-time use.
Maryhelen by state
Where Maryhelen concentrates geographically — total births since 1914
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 84 | 8.2% |
| #2 | Texas | | 30 | 2.9% |
| #3 | Arizona | | 10 | 1.0% |
84 of 1,020 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 8.2% of nationwide
- Texas 2.9% of nationwide
- Arizona 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 8.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1914–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.