Helena
117
Babies in 2024
-29%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 308
-20%
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 Helena
Helena peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (308 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 117 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Helena reached its peak in 1996, when 308 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #145 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 117 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,070 girls have been officially registered with the name Helena in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,711 girls were registered with the name, starting from 164 in 2014 and ending at 117 in 2024.