Helen
41
Babies in 2024
-20%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 435
+24%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Helen
Helen peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (435 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 41 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Helen reached its peak in 1996, when 435 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #108 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 41 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,361 girls have been officially registered with the name Helen in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 562 girls were registered with the name, starting from 51 in 2014 and ending at 41 in 2024.