Helena

Where Helena comes from

A Latinate form of Helen, borrowed from Latin Helena.
— Wiktionary's entry for Helena
  • Ancient Greek
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1831
    Helena Blavatsky born
    Russian occult writer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #198 among girls — 60 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1881
    Peak, #194
    61 babies named Helena — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1966
    Helena Bonham Carter born
    British actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Namesakes
  • Helena Bonham Carter · British actress, born 1966
  • Helena Blavatsky · Russian occult writer, 1831–1891
  • Helena Rubinstein · Polish-American businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist, 1872–1965
  • Helena Christensen · Danish model and photographer, born 1968
  • Helena Suková · Czech tennis player and psychologist, born 1965

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.