Helia
- #5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 1904 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 214since 1898
Helia over time
Rank among girls' names. Helia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
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| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 |
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| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
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| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
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| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
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| 1904 | #1,486 | 7 |
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| 1898 | #1,502 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Helia! It came in at #1,502, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1899–1903, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Helia is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #2,767 in California, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Helia
- 477 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #5,917)
- 2,052 spots since 2020 (#7,969 → #5,917)
- 10,502 spots since 2015 (#16,419 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 1904 at #1,486 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1905, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,337 girls born in 1904 were named Helia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.8% of all girls named Helia (83) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 6 | #1,502 (1898) | #1,502 |
| 1900s | 7 | #1,486 (1904) | #1,486 |
| 1910s | 11 | #3,618 (1914) | #3,707 |
| 1920s | 21 | #4,464 (1921) | #4,845 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 12 | #5,293 (1962) | #6,155 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 5 | #12,958 (1990) | #12,958 |
| 2000s | 26 | #14,502 (2005) | #15,806 |
| 2010s | 43 | #9,806 (2018) | #14,598 |
| 2020s | 83 | #5,917 (2025) | #8,170 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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