Hèlmi

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hèlmi is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *helmi, which may be a substrate word.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 277(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 9.2K
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 139K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

20,090 people

Record sources
155 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 277 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Helmi in FI Finland, US United States, TN Tunisia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Proto-Finnic *helmi, which may be a substrate word.

Cited for this meaning 3

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hèlmi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Hèlmi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland20,0901 in 27749KHelmi5
SE Sweden1,1141 in 9.2K1.1K—1
US United States1981 in 1.7M168Helmi9
BR Brazil1291 in 1.6M178——
NL Netherlands1011 in 171K94—2
TN Tunisia≈84 est.≈1 in 139K—Helmi22
DK Denmark271 in 217K18——

20,090 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Hèlmi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, Malaysia, Finland

    Also written Helmi, Hélmî, Hêlmî, Hèlmì

  • Indonesian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Tunisia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Helmi, 'Helmi, Helmi', Hêlmi, Hêlmí

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hèlmi under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hèlmi mean, and where does it come from?
From Proto-Finnic *helmi, which may be a substrate word. Recorded by Wiktionary and Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon and 1 other source.
Is Hèlmi a male or female name?
Hèlmi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Hèlmi have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Hèlmi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helmi.
Where is Hèlmi most common?
Hèlmi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 277 people carrying it.
How common is the name Hèlmi?
In Finland, the national register counted 20,090 people named Hèlmi, about 1 in 277 residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hèlmi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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