Helios
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Helios (god)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/eljos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Helios is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 16K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 56K
- ESSpain1 in 134K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Helios (god)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Helios is read(measured from records)
Helios is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish58%
Helios (god)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French15%
Origine grecque; dieu Soleil, « soleil ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English8.9%
Greek sun god
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
element
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
helium
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The god of the Sun; son of Hyperion and Theia, brother of Selene and Eos, father of Phaeton amongst others. His Roman counterpart is Sol.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese8.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Helios in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Helios, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Helios 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Helios | 2 |
| ES Spain | 374 | 1 in 134K | 374 | Helios | 63 |
| US United States | 244 | 1 in 1.4M | 241 | Helios | 51 |
| FR France | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 315K | 520 | Helios | 117 |
| AL Albania | 196 | 1 in 16K | 196 | Helios | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 61 | 1 in 56K | 61 | Helios | 8 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Helios | 7 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Helios Seelingerb. 1878BRBrazilian painter (1878-1965)
- Helios Gómezb. 1905ESSpanish artist (1905–1956)
- Helios Sánchezb. 1909ESSpanish trade unionist (1909-1988)
- Helios Acostab. 1923UYUruguayan painter (1923-1987)
- Helios Sarthoub. 1926UYUruguayan politician (1926-2012)
- Helios Eseverrib. 1930ARArgentinian politician
- Helios Mendiburub. 1936ESSpanish politician
- Helios Fernándezb. 1940ESColombian actor (1940-2004)
- Hélios Latchoumanayab. 2000FRFrench Paralympic judoka
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)
Attested in 45 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 520 | #1,344 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 374 | #5,584 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 365 | #2,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 241 | #33,752 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 196 | #1,851 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 61 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 61 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 58 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #33,752 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1994 | 1 | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Helios mean, and where does it come from?
- Helios (god) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Helios?
- In the etymology graph, Elio is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Helios?
- A machine transcription gives /eljos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Helios a male or female name?
- Helios 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 Helios have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 430 people named Helios in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helios.
- Where is Helios most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Helios is densest in Albania — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Helios?
- In Spain, the national register counted 374 people named Helios, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Helios?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heliosThe 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, “Helios”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.