Just found this thread - thanks to Alimae. I'm also a "Helen" and found oftroy's opening ramble interesting. The middle name, Elizabeth, is apparently straight from the Hebrew "oath of God" or "consecrated to God".
No big revelations here.
My mother was originally going to name me "Bethel", but took pity on me because of my surname. As I have a minor lisp in any case, I'm really grateful she didn't put me through "Hi, I'm Bethel Creith, I'm thickth yearth old and I have a lithp, can you tell?"