Heléna
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heléna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
- SESweden1 in 126(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 47
- CZCzechia1 in 72
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 466 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47 (inferred from the name graph)
366,186 people, 2022
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 Helena in PL Poland, SE Sweden.
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)
- LatinHelena(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἙλένηHelénē(measured from records)
Ultimately from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Sources 5
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heléna 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.
366,186 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Heléna 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 Croatian, 1. v. ♦ 2. mit. kći Zeusa i Lede, najljepša od svih smrtnih žena; žena spartanskog kralja Menelaja koju je ugrabio sin trojanskog kralja Paris, zbog čega je izbio Trojanski rat 3. pren. simbol lijepe i pustolovne žene
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Heléna Barócsib. 1966HUHungarian athletics competitor
- Heléna Tóthb. 1979HUHungarian historian
- Heléna Huhákb. 1987HUHungarian historian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 537 | #2,624 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 198 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 198 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 198 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 198 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 197 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 197 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 197 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 197 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 197 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 197 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 197 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Heléna mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Heléna a male or female name?
- Heléna 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.
- What are other forms of the name Heléna?
- In the etymology graph, Elena, Helen and Elaine are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Heléna have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 366 thousand people named Heléna, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Heléna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Heléna is densest in Finland — about 1 in 47 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Heléna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 366,186 people named Heléna in 2022, about 1 in 578 residents.
- How common is Heléna compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Heléna is the 271st most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Heléna?
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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%A9naThe 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, “Heléna” — the 271st most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.