Helmi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Helmi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 277(measured from records)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 2K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 277 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Helmi 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.
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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Helmi 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 German, ) Helmy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Estonian, a female given name borrowed from Finnish Helmi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of helmen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of helmus:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, pearl
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)
- Helmi Krohnb. 1871FIFinnish writer, translator and editor (1871–1967)
- Abbas IIb. 1874EGnot in their usual nameKhedive of Egypt (1874-1944) (r. 1892-1914)
- Helmi Juvonenb. 1903USAmerican artist (1903–1985)
- Helmi Üprusb. 1911EEEstonian art historian (1911-1978)
- Tuulikki Pietiläb. 1917USnot in their usual nameFinnish artist (1917–2009)
- Marjatta Väänänenb. 1923FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Suvi Lindénb. 1962FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
- Ahmed hb. 1968EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
- Helmi Hasanb. 1979IDIndonesian politician
- Helmi Dridib. 1980TNTunisian actor, theater and film director
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 39 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 190 | #7,766 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 101 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,917 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Helmi mean, and where does it come from?
- pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How common is the name Helmi?
- In Finland, the national register counted 20,090 people named Helmi, about 1 in 277 residents.
- How common is Helmi compared with other names?
- In Finland, Helmi is the 748th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
- Is Helmi a male or female name?
- Helmi 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.
- What are other forms of the name Helmi?
- In the etymology graph, Mina, Vilma and Wilma are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Helmi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Helmi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Helmi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Helmi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 277 people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Helmi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helmiThe 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, “Helmi” — the 748th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.