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Helana

Gender
Girl
Say it
heh-LAH-na
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Helana is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Helana mean?

Greek: variant of Helena

Variant of Helena, the Latin form of Helen, as in Helen of Troy in Greek myth.

Is Helana a girl's or a boy's name?

Helana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Helana in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 6 girls.

1996Busiest: 6 in 20062017
Helana in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20171#7,682
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20114#4,980
20103#5,938
20090–
20083#5,772
20073#5,415
20066#3,280
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19991#5,182
19980–
19972#5,038
19964#3,289

How popular is Helana in the US?

Rank in 2025
13,203rd among girls
Babies in 2025
6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Helana, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2006, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1947.

Half of all the girls named Helana in the US since 1880 were born between 1988 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1947Busiest: 25 in 20062025
Helana in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20239#10,307
20220–
20216#13,459
20200–
20198#11,350
201813#8,142
20179#10,685
20160–
201513#8,443
201412#8,961
201322#5,831
201212#9,105
201113#8,610
201016#7,510
200916#7,676
200815#8,105
200718#7,088
200625#5,382
200519#6,240
200415#7,386
200318#6,294
200216#6,692
200113#7,717
200021#5,307
199915#6,478
199811#8,011
199717#5,622
19967#10,562
199516#5,672
199410#8,116
19936#11,773
19920–
19917#10,263
19908#9,241
19896#10,841
19887#9,239
19875#11,320
198610#6,609
19858#7,560
19848#7,396
19830–
19829#6,886
19819#6,802
19809#6,788
197910#6,188
19786#8,560
19770–
19765#9,282
19750–
19748#6,257
19736#7,433
19720–
19710–
19706#7,069
19690–
19680–
19677#5,456
19665#6,563
196510#4,201
19645#6,766
19630–
19620–
19618#4,881
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19480–
19477#4,343

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Helana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/helana, updated 20 October 2026.