Helma

Where Helma comes from

Helma hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #738 among girls with 6 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1940
    Helma Sanders-Brahms born
    German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress
  4. 1953
    Helma Lehmann born
    East German rower
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Helma Sanders-Brahms · German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress, 1940–2014
  • Helma Lehmann · East German rower, born 1953
  • Helma Knorscheidt · German shot putter, born 1956
  • Helma Seitz · German actress, 1913–1995
  • Helma Orosz · German politician (CDU), MdL Saxony, mayor of Dresden, born 1953

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.