Hélmi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hélmi is a 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.
- 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)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- 1 in 277 (inferred from the name graph)
20,090 people
Highest-authority source
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.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hélmi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 20,090 | 1 in 277 | 49K | Helmi | 5 |
| SE Sweden | 1,114 | 1 in 9.2K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 198 | 1 in 1.7M | 168 | Helmi | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 129 | 1 in 1.6M | 178 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 101 | 1 in 171K | 94 | — | 2 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Helmi | 22 |
| DK Denmark | 27 | 1 in 217K | 18 | — | — |
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hélmi 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 Hélmi a male or female name?
- Hélmi is a female 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 Hélmi have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Hélmi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helmi.
- Where is Hélmi most common?
- Hélmi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 277 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hélmi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 20,090 people named Hélmi, about 1 in 277 residents.
What do you want to know about Hélmi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9lmiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hélmi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.