Helmes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Surnames showing -es/-s variation; page discusses distribution and bearer counts, especially in Luxembourg
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Helmes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 50K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 186K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 587K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
543 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Helmeš in SK Slovakia.
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)
Surnames showing -es/-s variation; page discusses distribution and bearer counts, especially in Luxembourg.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Helmes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 543 | 1 in 613K | 617 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 349 | 1 in 50K | 349 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 46 | 1 in 4.6M | 46 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 6 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 587K | — | Helmeš | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | 6 | 1 in 1.8M | 6 | — | 1 |
543 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Helmes is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, genitive singular of Helm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Genitivische Surname zu Helm(e); belegt 594-mal. Die Karte zeigt die Variante -mes gegenüber -ms.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, zu ahd. helm 'Helm'; Rufname Helm-
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymic from Helm 3.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Estonian, bead (small round object)
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)
- Günter Helmesb. 1954DEGerman literary and media scholar
- Patrick Helmesb. 1984DEGerman football player
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 617 | #38,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 606 | #35,187 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 543 | #40,313 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 349 | #5,815 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 46 | #111,063 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #35,541 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #177,678 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,454 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #188,482 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Helmes mean, and where does it come from?
- Surnames showing -es/-s variation; page discusses distribution and bearer counts, especially in Luxembourg. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- In which country does Helmes have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 543 people named Helmes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Helmes most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Helmes is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Helmes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 543 people named Helmes in 2010, about 1 in 613 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Helmes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helmesThe 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, “Helmes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.