The HELM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,700	1991	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	4,042	1529	0.008	81
Change since 1880	+12658	-462	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	305	5132	0.002	19
United Kingdom	1,745	3296	0.004	38

Top States for HELM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	1,299	1858	0.006	62
California	1,285	2449	0.004	38
Pennsylvania	1,155	1219	0.009	94
Kentucky	932	646	0.023	231
Illinois	915	1361	0.007	74
Top States for HELM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	264	185	0.041	411
Kentucky	932	646	0.023	231
Missouri	858	768	0.015	153
Kansas	374	740	0.014	139
Wyoming	65	857	0.013	132

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HELM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HELM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HELM in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HELM by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HELM

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HELM surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HELM surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HELM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	249	1.49
White (Hispanic)	204	1.22
Asian/Pacific	109	0.65
Native American/Alaskan	68	0.41
White (Caucasian)	14,930	89.4
Black/African American	1,141	6.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HELM surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to HELM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HELM.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.