Helan

given name · Latin script

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

Helan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 497Kas Helana(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 148K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 197K

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

783 named Helana, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 148K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HelanLatin(measured from records)
হেলানBengali(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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.

Where Helan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil783as Helana1 in 270K783——
CN China≈720 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Helan3
US United States669as Helana1 in 497K666Helan97
ID Indonesia≈280 est.≈1 in 959K—Helan34
MY Malaysia≈100 est.≈1 in 325K—Helan9
SY Syria≈74 est.≈1 in 260K—Helan6
SE Sweden691 in 148K69Helan7
AE United Arab Emirates≈51 est.≈1 in 197K—Helan5

783 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Helan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Helán

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, India, Mexico

    Also written Helán, Hélan

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Helán, Hélan, Helan̲

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, China, India

    Also written He-Lan

  • Swedish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written HelÅn

  • Sinhala given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sri Lanka, United States

    Also written Helana, හෙලන්

  • Malayalam given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Helen, Helenn, ஹெலன

33 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)

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)

600650700750800Helan Minzhi, b. 642Helan Wuwen, b. 657Helan Sui, b. 756

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 34 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Helan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#72,850

Reference works 4

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

Is Helan a male or female name?
Helan is a female 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 Helan have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 783 people named Helana, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Helan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Helan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 148 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Helan?
In Sweden, the national register counted 69 people named Helan, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.

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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, “Helan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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