Hellén Surname
Approximately 234 people bear this surname
Hellén Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | 144 | 1:38,172 | 4,883 |
| Sweden | 88 | 1:111,895 | 8,035 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
The alternate forms: Hellen (4,103) & Héllen (6) are calculated separately.
Hellén (10) may also be a first name.
Hellén Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hellén Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Hellén is most common in Finland. It can occur in the variant forms: Hellen or Héllen. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Hellén? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 1,064,392nd most frequently occurring family name in the world, held by approximately 1 in 31,143,359 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Hellén reside; 100 percent reside in Northern Europe and 100 percent reside in Scandinavia. It is also the 3,684,242nd most commonly held first name world-wide It is held by 10 people.
The surname Hellén is most frequently held in Finland, where it is carried by 144 people, or 1 in 38,172. In Finland Hellén is primarily concentrated in: Uusimaa, where 45 percent live, Ostrobothnia, where 13 percent live and Southwest Finland, where 11 percent live. Other than Finland this last name occurs in 3 countries. It also occurs in Sweden, where 38 percent live and Denmark, where 0 percent live.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Hellén
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