Helan
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE): listed as male
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/ɛlɐ̃/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Helan is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 98K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 148K
- NONorway≈1 in 290K
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 Helan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Helana in BD Bangladesh.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Helan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 98K | 2 | Helan | 49 |
| BR Brazil | 783as Helana | 1 in 270K | 783 | — | — |
| US United States | 669as Helana | 1 in 497K | 666 | Helan | 97 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 688K | — | Helan | 34 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 643K | — | Helana | 13 |
| SY Syria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Helan | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 69 | 1 in 148K | 69 | Helan | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Helan | 5 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Helan 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 Esperanto, accusative singular of hela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of hela
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-pro, to hide, to conceal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, to hide, conceal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In osx, to hide
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)- Helan Minzhib. 642Tang dynasty person CBDB = 31548
- Helan Wuwenb. 657Tang dynasty person CBDB = 140401
- Helan Suib. 756Tang dynasty person CBDB = 145194
- Helan YueshiTang dynasty person CBDB = 31547
- Helan JinmingTang dynasty person CBDB = 94174
- Helan PengjiTang dynasty person CBDB = 94175
- Helan SuiTang dynasty person CBDB = 94176
- Helan YingTang dynasty person CBDB = 145105
- Helan Qianperson, CBDB = 151239
- Helan Jingperson, CBDB = 151240
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)Evidence
(measured from records)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 225 | #34,642 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 163 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 146 | #29,376 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 143 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 131 | #31,861 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 131 | #15,567 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 117 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 69 | #10,996 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 67 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 62 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 54 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Helan?
- In Portuguese /ɛlɐ̃/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Helan a male or female name?
- Helan is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE): listed as male; Norway (SSB): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Helan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Helan in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helan.
- How common is the name Helan?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 69 people named Helan, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Helan?
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/helanThe 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, “Helan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.