The Helle surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,877 people carried this name — #15,579 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 156,300 people counted. That is up 30% from 1,448 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 744 people named Helle.
6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 55 départements, most often Nord.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
46 people named Helle live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
2,947 people named Helle are counted in Norway, Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Helle,
with a public archive behind them.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Helle 1834–1901 · writer -
Ola Ersdal 1534–1612
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Rasmus Litle Helle 1587–
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Torkel Rasmussen Litle Helle 1614–
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Anton thor Helle 1683–1748 · writer
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Anton thor Helle 1683–1748 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Helle.
- Helgen 137 · U.S. census
- Helie 173 · U.S. census
- Helin 480 · U.S. census
- Heline 146 · U.S. census
- Hell 373 · U.S. census
- Hellard 841 · U.S. census
- Hellebuyck 228 · U.S. census
- Heller 25,373 · U.S. census
- Helley 117 · U.S. census
- Hellier 192 · U.S. census
- Hellmann 1,458 · U.S. census
- Helly 130 · U.S. census
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