Helani
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɛɫɑni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Helani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 179K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 415K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Helani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Helani | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 179K | — | Helani | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 117 | 1 in 1.8M | 117 | Helani | 17 |
| US United States | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 19M | 6 | Helani | 26 |
| AU Australia | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Helani | 18 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Helani | 1 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 117 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 116 | #36,897 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 111 | #20,775 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 92 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 80 | #40,249 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 55 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 37 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Helani?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛɫɑni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Helani a male or female name?
- Helani 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 Helani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Helani in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helani.
- How common is the name Helani?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 117 people named Helani in 2022, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Helani?
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/helaniThe 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, “Helani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.