Helal

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Like the crescent

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/hɛɫəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Helal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 2.5K
  • SYSyria≈1 in 5.6K

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.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
144 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Bangladesh, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HelalLatin(measured from records)
হেলালBengali(measured from records)

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)

Like the crescent

Sources 1

  • The book of African names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Helal 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.

Where Helal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#93≈100,000 est.≈1 in 1.6KlistedHelal74
EG Egypt#171≈42,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Helal128
SA Saudi Arabia#592≈4,600 est.≈1 in 7.4K—Helal72
SY Syria#448≈3,500 est.≈1 in 5.6K—Helal26
AE United Arab Emirates#335≈1,600 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Helal79
BH Bahrain#97≈560 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Helal28
US United States—3231 in 1M516Helal144

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Helal is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Canada

    Also written Hélal, Helâl, Hēläl, Hêlàl, Hèlãl

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hélal

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ĥeļąl, Hélal, Heläl, Hélál, Ĥḝlãl

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Hẽĺǻļ, Ĥeląl

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Helal 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 Turkish, lawful, legitimate

    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)

196019802000Sahar Helal, b. 1969Samir Helal, b. 1971Hamada Helal, b. 1980Wassim Helal, b. 1982Mony Helal, b. 1992Rayan Helal, b. 1999Maxime Helal Ali, b. 2000

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)

Formalالسيد Helal المحترم،Dear Mr. Helal, (English)
Informalمرحباً Helal،Hi Helal, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Helal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020516#44,751
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010323#62,045
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000166#100,663
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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

What does the name Helal mean, and where does it come from?
Like the crescent Recorded by The book of African names.
How do you pronounce Helal?
A machine transcription gives /hɛɫəɫ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Helal have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Helal in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helal.
How common is the name Helal?
In the United States, the national register counted 323 people named Helal in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
How common is Helal compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Helal is the 93rd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Helal” — the 93rd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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