Helén
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, a French type variant of Helena (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/heleːn/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Helén is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Helén is also written Елена in Cyrillic, ילנה in Hebrew and Ελενη in Greek.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 270(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 330
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 470
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Helén itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #2 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 273 (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000,000 named Елена, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Helén in other scripts: Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek and 6 more
(measured from records)21 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Елена in RU Russia, BY Belarus, FI Finland, Олена in UA Ukraine, Rina in IN India and Alan in GB United Kingdom.
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.
How to pronounce Helén
- Swedish:/heleːn/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name, a French type variant of Helena
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Helén 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #2 | ≈5,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 29 | register #3 | Елена | 309 |
| IN India | #32 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 481 | Rina | 215 |
| UA Ukraine | #2 | ≈920,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | listed | Олена | 174 |
| IT Italy | #13 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | 191 | Elena | 238 |
| BR Brazil | #17 | 366,186as Helena | 1 in 578 | 366K | Helena | 227 |
| GR Greece | #9 | 272,590as Ελένη | 1 in 39 | 520K | Ελενη | 198 |
| GB United Kingdom | #13 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 273 | 5.7K | Alan | 371 |
| BY Belarus | #1 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 36 | 39 | Елена | 81 |
| FI Finland | — | 117,524as Helena | 1 in 47 | 175K | Елена | 116 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Helén is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, Hellene (Ancient Greek)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Helén Söderqvist Henrikssonb. 1958SESwedish actress
- Helén Eriksenb. 1971NONorwegian jazz musician
- Helén Petterssonb. 1972SESwedish politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Helén mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, a French type variant of Helena Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Helén?
- In Swedish /heleːn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Helén a male or female name?
- Helén is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV).
- Which countries have the most people named Helén?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 million people named Елена in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Ukraine, Italy and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Helén?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 366,186 people named Helena in 2022, about 1 in 578 residents.
- How common is Helén compared with other names?
- In Russia, Helén is the 2nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Helén?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hel%C3%A9nThe 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, “Helén” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.