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The first name 
Helene

Helene is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Helene meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Helene is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Helene. In the SmartGenius ranking, Helene is #3,879 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 25,907 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Helene. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Helene

Helene -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Helene annualy. This means that there have been girls named Helene who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Helene have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Helene even more than any other time: in 1916, it holds its present record of #226 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Helene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Helene 2022 among young parents?

Helene has never been ranked higher than #226. In 2022, she rivaled the 4,121 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 29 girls named Helene were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Helene were born, there have been 48 newborns who received this name.

Helene has 6 letters 
and begins with an H

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With six letters, the name Helene is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.

Other names with 
H, e, l, e, n and e

If you take all the letters in the name Helene – H, e, l, e, n and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Heleen or Henlee.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Helene

If your name is Helene and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Helene

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Helene, you can simply say:

Hat

Elephant

Lion

Elephant

Nut

Elephant

This is how the name Helene is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Helene in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Helene

Helene

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Helene

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Helene is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

H
E
L
E
N
E

Have you ever waved the name Helene

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

H
E
L
E
N
E

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Helene sounds like this: