Helbo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɛlˀbo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Helbo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 12K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 249K
- NONorway1 in 456K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
488 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
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)
Helbo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #729 | 488 | 1 in 12K | 488 | Helbo | 60 |
| BE Belgium | — | 47 | 1 in 249K | 47 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 2 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Helbo | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | Helbo | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | 9 | 1 in 1.1M | 9 | Helbo | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 3 |
488 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Helbo 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 Latin, A small island off the coast of Lycia
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 488 | #877 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 47 | #27,400 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,615 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #41,328 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Helbo?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛlˀbo/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Helbo have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 488 people named Helbo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helbo.
- Where is Helbo most common?
- Helbo is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Helbo?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 488 people named Helbo, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Helbo compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Helbo is the 729th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Helbo?
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/helboThe 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, “Helbo” — the 729th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.