Entry № 4186 · Greek origin

Helle Helle — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-lay /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Princess of the Hellespont (Greek)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "princess of the hellespont (greek)".

Helle (Ἕλλη) is the Greek princess who, fleeing her stepmother Ino with her brother Phrixos on the Golden Ram, fell from the sky into the strait between Europe and Asia. The Hellespont ("Helle's sea") — the modern Dardanelles — is named after her.

Featured in Pindar's poetry and Apollonius's Argonautica.

The princess for whom the Hellespont is named.

The name in its native script.

Ἕλλη
Transliteration
Héllē
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛl.eɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Helle stands.

Helle does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Helles before her.

Real people
Helle
Greek mythological princess.
In fiction
Helle
Origin of the Hellespont.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Helle.

The number behind Helle.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Helle reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.