Helma
Last seen for girls in 1952 at #5,563
- Peak · girls
- 1880 · 6 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 595since 1880
Helma over time
Rank among girls' names. Helma has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 |
| 1931 | #4,331 | 5 |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 |
| 1924 | #2,514 | 14 |
| 1923 | #2,264 | 16 |
| 1922 | #1,957 | 20 |
| 1921 | #1,927 | 21 |
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 |
| 1918 | #1,690 | 23 |
| 1917 | #2,204 | 15 |
| 1916 | #1,485 | 25 |
| 1915 | #1,523 | 23 |
| 1914 | #1,541 | 18 |
| 1913 | #2,331 | 8 |
| 1912 | #1,477 | 14 |
| 1911 | #1,545 | 10 |
| 1910 | #1,935 | 7 |
| 1909 | #1,015 | 16 |
| 1908 | #1,547 | 8 |
| 1907 | #1,206 | 11 |
| 1906 | #1,727 | 6 |
| 1905 | #1,238 | 10 |
| 1904 | #1,486 | 7 |
| 1903 | #1,137 | 10 |
| 1902 | #1,075 | 11 |
| 1901 | #1,136 | 9 |
| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 |
| 1899 | #983 | 11 |
| 1898 | #840 | 16 |
| 1897 | #1,094 | 9 |
| 1896 | #1,213 | 8 |
| 1895 | #815 | 15 |
| 1894 | #744 | 16 |
| 1893 | #794 | 14 |
| 1892 | #1,450 | 5 |
| 1891 | #943 | 9 |
| 1890 | #791 | 12 |
| 1889 | #839 | 10 |
| 1888 | #1,136 | 6 |
| 1887 | #1,147 | 5 |
| 1886 | #993 | 6 |
| 1885 | #793 | 8 |
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| 1880 | #738 | 6 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Helma was already there! It came in at #738, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1884, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Helma is popular in 1891
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Helma
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1952
- Biggest jump: 656 spots in 1893 (#1,450 → #794)
- Biggest drop: 578 spots in 1900 (#983 → #1,561)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #738 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1881, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1889–1891
- Highest: 1 in 13,933 girls born in 1894 were named Helma (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 370,867 girls born in 1952 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #738 in 1880, was only 1 in 15,166 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.9% of all girls named Helma (154) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1880s | 41 | #738 (1880) | #941 |
| 1890s | 115 | #744 (1894) | #967 |
| 1900s | 95 | #1,015 (1909) | #1,313 |
| 1910s | 154 | #1,477 (1912) | #1,854 |
| 1920s | 125 | #1,927 (1921) | #2,929 |
| 1930s | 49 | #3,055 (1930) | #3,880 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,954 (1941) | #4,323 |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,563 (1952) | #5,563 |
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.
Helma in 1891
Top girls' names in 1891
More about 1891
girls
185,482 girls got a published name in 1891; 1 in 20,609 of them was named Helma, which outranked 38.5% of the 1,533 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).