Helmuth
Helmuth is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
- German
Meaning & Origin of Helmuth
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Helmuth is both a masculine German given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- German
The Story of Helmuth
The earliest SSA record of Helmuth as a baby boy name dates back to 1892, when 5 babies received it. 1917 was its biggest year on record, with 34 newborns named Helmuth — #1,152 in the national rankings. About 37% of every Helmuth on record arrived during the 1910s, its defining decade. Helmuth last appeared in the published SSA data in 1958, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 500 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Helmuth
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Helmuth. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Helmuth
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About the name Helmuth
Helmuth is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1892 and has accumulated 500 births in the dataset. Helmuth's peak popularity came in 1917 when it ranked #1,152. Use the chart and map above to compare Helmuth's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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