Helmi

given name · Finnish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Helmi is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 74th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Indonesian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 277◐
  • SESweden1 in 9.2K
  • TNTunisia1 in 78K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈22K ●

across 9 countries

Sources
52 ●

719 records

Reference-verified

1 in 277 ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Helmi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#7420,090△320 rec.1 in 27749KHelmi52
SE Sweden—1,114△17 rec.1 in 9.2K1.1KHelmi12
BR Brazil—129—1 in 1.6M178——
US United States—102165 rec.1 in 3.3M168Helmi29
NL Netherlands—94△1 rec.1 in 184K94Helmi2
MY Malaysia—91115 rec.——Helmi11
TN Tunisia—5143 rec.——Helmi9
DK Denmark—18—1 in 326K18——
PL Poland—15—1 in 2.6M15——
GB United Kingdom—119 rec.—listedHelmi9
CA Canada—1013 rec.——Helmi3
EE Estonia—97 rec.—listedHelmi6

Roughly 20K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 277). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Finnish169K79%
  • Indonesian18K8%
  • Malay7.8K4%
  • English5.2K2%
  • Arabic3.1K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish169,41179%
Indonesian17,5468%
Malay7,8294%
English5,1562%
Arabic3,0931%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Helmi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name44K records spelled Helmi9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Tunisia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Helmi', 'Helmi, Hêlmí, Hèlmï, Hélmi

  • English given name11K records spelled Helmi20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Germany, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hélmi, Hêlmī, Hëlmï, Hélmí, Hêlmì

  • French given name3.4K records spelled Helmi19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Tunisia, United States

    Also written Hélmi, Hèlmi, Hëlmï, Hèlmî, Hélmî

  • Turkish given name1.4K records spelled Helmi7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Malaysia, Syria, Finland

    Also written Hèlmi, Hêlmî, Hèlmì, Hélmî

  • Spanish given name939 records spelled Helmi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Peru, Argentina

    Also written Hélmi, Hëlmî, Hélmï

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Helmi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ) Helmy: weibl. Vom., Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Estonian, a female given name borrowed from Finnish Helmi

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, alternative form of helmen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, inflection of helmus:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In izh, pearl

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

010203019001910192029 · 1918

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Helmi in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1898–1928
Yearrecords
18985
19005
19016
19025
190410
190512
19068
19079
190812
19099
19105
191115
191212
191314
191418
191527
191622
191725
191829
191921
192017
192119
192210
192310
19246
19259
192611
19278
19286

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1898–1928. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Helmi Krohn, b. 1871Abbas II, b. 1874Helmi Juvonen, b. 1903Helmi Üprus, b. 1911Tuulikki Pietilä, b. 1917Marjatta Väänänen, b. 1923Suvi Lindén, b. 1962Ahmed h, b. 1968Helmi Hasan, b. 1979Helmi Dridi, b. 1980
  • Helmi Krohnb. 1871FIFinnish writer, translator and editor (1871–1967)
  • Abbas IIb. 1874EGnot in their usual nameKhedive of Egypt (1874-1944) (r. 1892-1914)
  • Helmi Juvonenb. 1903USAmerican artist (1903–1985)
  • Helmi Üprusb. 1911EEEstonian art historian (1911-1978)
  • Tuulikki Pietiläb. 1917USnot in their usual nameFinnish artist (1917–2009)
  • Marjatta Väänänenb. 1923FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
  • Suvi Lindénb. 1962FInot in their usual nameFinnish politician
  • Ahmed hb. 1968EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
  • Helmi Hasanb. 1979IDIndonesian politician
  • Helmi Dridib. 1980TNTunisian actor, theater and film director

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 39 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Helmi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—49K#53
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—20K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.1K#1,571
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)1999699—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2000671—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2001645—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2002611—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2003573—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2004547—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2005514—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2006487—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2007460—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Helmi?
We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Helmi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Helmi have the most bearers?
We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Helmi in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled helmi.
Where is Helmi most common?
Helmi is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 277 people carrying it.
How common is Helmi compared with other names?
In Finland, Helmi is the 74th most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Helmi a male or female name?
Helmi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Helmi mean?
Recorded meaning: pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Helmi” — the 74th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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