Helmuth
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of heil ‘wholeness’ or helm ‘helmet’ -l- mut ‘craving’, ‘mind’; compare Helwig (Dictionary of American Family Names)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries
/ɛlmu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Helmuth is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.2K
- NANamibia≈1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 245 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Helmuth
- Portuguese:/ɛlmu/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/elmut̪/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a Germanic personal name composed of heil ‘wholeness’ or helm ‘helmet’ -l- mut ‘craving’, ‘mind’; compare Helwig.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Helmuth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #763 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Helmuth | 144 |
| AT Austria | #629 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 53 | Helmuth | 75 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 106K | listed | Helmuth | 29 |
| BR Brazil | — | 460 | 1 in 460K | 733 | — | 1 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 3 | — | 2 |
| NA Namibia | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 3 | — | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 209 | 1 in 28K | 209 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltkeb. 1800DEGerman Field Marshal (1800–1891)
- Helmuth von Moltke the Youngerb. 1848DEChief of the German General Staff (1848–1916)
- Helmuth Weidlingb. 1891DEWehrmacht general (1891–1955)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Helmuth mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of heil ‘wholeness’ or helm ‘helmet’ -l- mut ‘craving’, ‘mind’; compare Helwig. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Helmuth?
- In the etymology graph, Helmut is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Helmuth?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ɛlmu/; in Spanish /elmut̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Helmuth a male or female name?
- Helmuth is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Helmuth?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Helmuth in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled helmuth. After it come Austria, Italy, Brazil and Chile; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Helmuth?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 460 people named Helmuth in 2022, about 1 in 460 thousand residents.
- How common is Helmuth compared with other names?
- In Germany, Helmuth is the 763rd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/helmuthThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Helmuth” — the 763rd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.