Helaine

Where Helaine comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Helaine.

  • Vowel-ended
Helaine through the years
  1. 1909
    First appearance
    #2,208 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1938
    Peak, #870
    65 babies named Helaine, its best rank.
  3. 1940
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,313.
  4. 1942
    Helaine Blumenfeld born
    American sculptor
  5. 1947
    Helaine Head born
    Film director, television director, theatre director
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Helaine Blumenfeld · American sculptor, born 1942
  • Helaine Head · Film director, television director, theatre director, born 1947

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.