Helio is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Helio in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Helio in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Helio by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Helio ranks at #6,130. That means there are 6,129 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Helio.
In fact, the name Helio did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Helio seemed to be more popular than ever in 2008. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,501, 26 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Helio, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Helio was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Helio a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #4,845 - with a total of 16 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Helio, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Helio living in one state or another. (If your name is Helio and you live outside of California and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 466,619 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Helio. So if your name is Helio, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Helio already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Helio is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Helio 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Helio, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Helio
Helio
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
L
I
O
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
I
O
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. Helio sounds like this:
