What does Helene mean in Hawaiian?
Helene is a Hawaiian girl name that means Hawaiian form of Ἕλλην. It is pronounced heh-LEH-neh, with 3 syllables. The stressed syllable is written in capitals.
Helene belongs with other Hawaiian names about biblical.
Ἕλλην in Hawaiian
Helene is the Hawaiian form of Ἕλλην, the Greek name respelled with Hawaiian sounds. It is not a translation of what Ἕλλην means, but it has been used by Hawaiian families since the 1800s. See your name in Hawaiian for the full list of recorded forms.
How to pronounce Helene
Say every vowel. The vowels in Helene are e as in “bet”. See the full Hawaiian pronunciation guide.
Is Helene a boy or girl name?
Helene is used mainly as a girl's name, though Hawaiian itself has no grammatical gender.
How often Helene is given in the U.S.
Social Security records show 33,240 U.S. babies named Helene since 1880, but that spelling is mostly the French name, so the count says little about the Hawaiian name. In Hawaiʻi itself, 201 babies born in the state were named Helene from 1918 to 2021, with a peak of 12 in 1944. No year after 1959 reached five births of one sex there.
How well recorded is Helene?
Helene has its own entry among Wiktionary’s documented Hawaiian given names.