Helmer
Last seen for boys in 2017 at #9,696
- Peak · boys
- 1897 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 835since 1884
Helmer over time
Rank among boys' names. Helmer has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,324 | 9 |
| 2007 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | — | |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | — | |
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| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | #2,479 | 9 |
| 1936 | #2,301 | 10 |
| 1935 | #2,396 | 10 |
| 1934 | #2,563 | 9 |
| 1933 | #3,004 | 7 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,471 | 10 |
| 1930 | #2,444 | 11 |
| 1929 | #1,672 | 20 |
| 1928 | #2,270 | 13 |
| 1927 | #2,298 | 13 |
| 1926 | #2,725 | 10 |
| 1925 | #1,870 | 18 |
| 1924 | #1,894 | 18 |
| 1923 | #1,696 | 21 |
| 1922 | #1,396 | 28 |
| 1921 | #2,502 | 12 |
| 1920 | #1,348 | 29 |
| 1919 | #1,230 | 33 |
| 1918 | #1,124 | 37 |
| 1917 | #1,092 | 37 |
| 1916 | #1,240 | 29 |
| 1915 | #1,454 | 22 |
| 1914 | #1,101 | 27 |
| 1913 | #969 | 26 |
| 1912 | #1,000 | 21 |
| 1911 | #1,038 | 11 |
| 1910 | #1,314 | 7 |
| 1909 | #1,155 | 7 |
| 1908 | #825 | 11 |
| 1907 | #999 | 8 |
| 1906 | #927 | 8 |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #874 | 8 |
| 1903 | #1,009 | 6 |
| 1902 | #1,137 | 5 |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #836 | 10 |
| 1899 | #613 | 11 |
| 1898 | #804 | 8 |
| 1897 | #515 | 15 |
| 1896 | #982 | 6 |
| 1895 | #685 | 10 |
| 1894 | #730 | 9 |
| 1893 | #1,035 | 5 |
| 1892 | #641 | 11 |
| 1891 | #963 | 5 |
| 1890 | #667 | 9 |
| 1889 | #673 | 9 |
| 1888 | #755 | 8 |
| 1887 | #679 | 8 |
| 1886 | #694 | 8 |
| 1885 | #547 | 12 |
| 1884 | #848 | 6 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Helmer! It came in at #848, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1901–1902, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Helmer is popular in 1897
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Helmer
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2017
- Biggest jump: 467 spots in 1897 (#982 → #515)
- Biggest drop: 394 spots in 1893 (#641 → #1,035)
- Debuted 1884
- Peaked 1897 at #515 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1901, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 22 yrs · run 1884–1892
- Highest: 1 in 7,517 boys born in 1897 were named Helmer (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 264,422 boys born in 2017 (0.00%)
- 29.9% of all boys named Helmer (250) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | #547 (1885) | #699 |
| 1890s | 89 | #515 (1897) | #764 |
| 1900s | 63 | #825 (1908) | #970 |
| 1910s | 250 | #969 (1913) | #1,156 |
| 1920s | 182 | #1,348 (1920) | #1,967 |
| 1930s | 78 | #2,301 (1936) | #2,661 |
| 1940s | 22 | #2,996 (1945) | #3,366 |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,886 (1955) | #3,914 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 18 | #4,878 (1996) | #6,335 |
| 2000s | 48 | #7,096 (2005) | #8,371 |
| 2010s | 24 | #9,696 (2017) | #10,866 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Helmer in 1897
Top boys' names in 1897
More about 1897
boys
112,757 boys got a published name in 1897; 1 in 7,517 of them was named Helmer, which outranked 58.1% of the 1,229 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).