Helen Girl Name

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The name Helen is of Greek origin, and means light. The table below indicates the number of times the name Helen has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Helen**
Use of the Name Helen for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
1,006,854	86,601	21,047	8,490	4,274	1,631	854

The table below indicates the number of times the name Helen has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Helen**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	35	636
1881	43	612	743	7
1882	31	838
1883	35	863	962	5
1884	33	986
1885	28	1,134	874	6
1886	25	1,267
1887	21	1,405
1888	16	1,848
1889	17	1,908	746	8
1890	12	2,312	844	7
1891	9	2,416	666	9
1892	9	2,936	900	7
1893	6	3,249	795	8
1894	4	3,676	817	8
1895	3	4,023	496	17
1896	3	4,392	749	10
1897	3	4,518	506	16
1898	3	5,231	513	17
1899	3	5,048	491	16
1900	2	6,345	592	18
1901	2	5,247	478	17
1902	2	5,967	361	30
1903	2	6,127	357	29
1904	2	6,487	596	15
1905	2	6,811	426	26
1906	2	7,172	433	26
1907	2	7,572	547	20
1908	2	8,421	442	30
1909	2	9,225	412	36
1910	2	10,449	526	29
1911	2	11,764	429	46
1912	2	16,071	696	38
1913	2	18,843	639	49
1914	2	23,177	718	53
1915	2	30,836	779	60
1916	2	32,658	644	83
1917	2	34,224	806	62
1918	2	36,155	717	79
1919	2	33,701	841	61
1920	3	35,061	871	62
1921	3	34,792	858	65
1922	3	32,495	835	67
1923	3	31,481	856	63
1924	3	31,197	746	80
1925	4	29,133	725	80
1926	4	26,849	747	74
1927	4	25,290	678	90
1928	4	22,916	678	87
1929	4	20,989	710	77
1930	4	19,896	685	84
1931	6	17,639	758	67
1932	8	16,349	629	90
1933	8	14,638	639	82
1934	9	14,089	904	49
1935	10	12,773	759	66
1936	11	12,224	838	53
1937	12	11,450	752	66
1938	13	10,833	767	64
1939	16	10,426	938	45
1940	18	10,205
1941	24	9,885	919	48
1942	26	10,021
1943	28	9,756
1944	31	8,679
1945	31	8,294
1946	36	8,827
1947	38	8,974
1948	40	8,319
1949	46	7,696
1950	50	7,059
1951	54	6,931
1952	63	6,465
1953	65	6,120
1954	72	5,952
1955	78	5,604
1956	90	5,275
1957	95	5,009
1958	100	4,758
1959	108	4,376
1960	117	4,072
1961	119	3,847
1962	128	3,590
1963	124	3,341
1964	132	3,097
1965	137	2,802
1966	144	2,450
1967	158	2,150
1968	173	1,879
1969	174	1,860
1970	191	1,704
1971	209	1,436
1972	225	1,247
1973	222	1,136
1974	225	1,137
1975	230	1,056
1976	251	939
1977	249	991
1978	255	924
1979	281	874
1980	275	906
1981	276	892
1982	279	870
1983	279	840
1984	281	860
1985	301	808
1986	313	764
1987	297	815
1988	321	771
1989	305	858
1990	318	860
1991	339	775
1992	326	827
1993	307	866
1994	320	845
1995	325	835
1996	313	898
1997	344	811
1998	349	831
1999	356	841
2000	346	887
2001	344	883
2002	340	873
2003	391	777
2004	364	854
Totals:		1,006,854		2,407

During the last 125 years, parents have used Helen as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name.

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