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The HELMS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 29,727 1074 0.011 110
United States (1880 census) 4,770 1308 0.01 95
Change since 1880 +24957 +234 +0.001 +15
Other Countries
Australia 81 17045 0 5
United Kingdom 76 24981 0 2
Top States for HELMS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 6,039 141 0.075 750
Florida 2,179 924 0.014 136
Alabama 2,097 322 0.047 472
Texas 1,906 1314 0.009 91
South Carolina 1,626 368 0.041 405
Top States for HELMS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Carolina 6,039 141 0.075 750
Alabama 2,097 322 0.047 472
South Carolina 1,626 368 0.041 405
Arkansas 814 411 0.030 304
Georgia 1,379 772 0.017 168

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of HELMS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HELMS 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 HELMS 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 HELMS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 318 1.07
White (Hispanic) 318 1.07
Native American/Alaskan 178 0.6
Asian/Pacific 86 0.29
White (Caucasian) 27,572 92.75
Black/African American 1,254 4.22

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

Meaning of HELMS in historical publications

HELMS. See Helme.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HELMS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HELMS.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HELMS

The following words are slight variants of HELMS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.