Helies
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Helies is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Héliès, ultimately from Breton.
- FRFrance≈1 in 89K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 9.8Mfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.7Mfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
≈770 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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
(measured from records)Borrowed from French Héliès, ultimately from Breton.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Helies 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 89 | Helies | 153 |
| US United States | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.8M | listed | Helies | 43 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Helies | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 8.1M | — | Helies | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | Helies | 1 |
| NR Nauru | #645 | — | — | — | Helies | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)Helies 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 English, A surname from Breton.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 154 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 144 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 134 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 132 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 90 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 44 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Helies mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Héliès, ultimately from Breton. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Helies have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 773 people named Helies in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helies.
- How common is the name Helies?
- Mondonomo estimates about 770 people in France have Helies as their first surname, about 1 in 89 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Helies compared with other names?
- In Nauru, Helies is the 645th most common surname of 1,280 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Helies?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heliesThe 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, “Helies” — the 645th most common surname in Nauru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.