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How popular is “Helix” in the USA?

Number of people named “Helix” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Helix” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Helix” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Helix” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Helix” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Helix” by birth year

This chart shows how “Helix” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2014 8 0.000002158 8 -100%
2015 14 0.000003783 14 -100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 -100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 -100%
2018 15 0.000004266 15 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 11 -100%
2020 16 0.00000479 16 -100%
2021 14 0.000004132 14 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 7 0.000002114 7 -100%
2024 21 0.000006309 21 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Helix:

  1. Helio
  2. Heliodoro
  3. Helios
  4. Helissa
  5. Helius
  6. Helix (this page)
  7. Hella
  8. Hellan
  9. Hellen
  10. Hellena
  11. Hellene