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    The surname Hellen

    A place surname, carried by 576 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H450

    Hellen: #38,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hellen #38,439, 576 people Hellen: #38,439 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hellen #38,439, 576 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hellen is more common than 76.3% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Swedish surname, from häll (“flat rock”) + adjectival suffix -en. Also found in Finland. * As an English surname, variant of Ellen, sometimes confused with Helen. * As an English surname of Norman origin, from the placename Helléan in France, from Middle French Helien, named after Hellean, a Brythonic/Celtic figure of ancient Britain, which could ultimately be related to the source of Ellis.

    Hellen is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 576 people named Hellen in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 536,017 Americans. That is down 12% since 2000, when the Census counted 652.

    #38,439
    rank among US surnames
    576
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -11.7%
    change since 2000 (was #33,090)

    Who is named Hellen

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    87% of people named Hellen identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic) and 4.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 87%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.2%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hellen

    Hellen has the Soundex code H450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H450.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hellen come from?
    * As a Swedish surname, from häll (“flat rock”) + adjectival suffix -en. Also found in Finland. * As an English surname, variant of Ellen, sometimes confused with Helen. * As an English surname of Norman origin, from the placename Helléan in France, from Middle French Helien, named after Hellean,…
    How common is the surname Hellen?
    576 people in the United States had the surname Hellen in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 536,017 Americans. It ranked 38,439th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hellen?
    In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Hellen identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Hellen?
    Hellen is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hellen getting more or less common?
    Less common. 652 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 576 in 2010, down 12%.