Helal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Like the crescent
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/hel̪al̪/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from হেলাল
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.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.3K
- BHBahrain≈1 in 2.6Kfew records
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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
Cited for this meaning 1
- The book of African names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Helal is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #93 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Helal | 74 |
| EG Egypt | #171 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Helal | 128 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #592 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Helal | 72 |
| SY Syria | #448 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Helal | 26 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #335 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Helal | 79 |
| KW Kuwait | #390 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Helal | 31 |
| BH Bahrain | #97 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Helal | 28 |
| US United States | — | 323 | 1 in 1M | 516 | Helal | 144 |
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 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)- Hamada Helalb. 1980EGEgyptian singer and composer
- Wassim Helalb. 1982TNTunisian handball player
- Rayan Helalb. 1999FRFrench cyclist
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)40 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
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?
- In Bangla /hel̪al̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Helal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Helal in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helal. After it come Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Helal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helalThe 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, “Helal” — the 93rd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.