Alena

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Alena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Russian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • RURussia1 in 26◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 30
  • GRGreece1 in 39

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.3M ●

across 13 countries

#6 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
583 ●

59M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 39 ◐

Greece

Spellings & scripts●

ЕленаCyrillic · Russian●34M records
ElenaLatin · Spanish●6.6M records
ΕλενηGreek · Greek●827K records
ילנהHebrew · Hebrew●151K records
ᲔლენეGeorgian · Georgian●97K records
리나Hangul · Korean●4.4K records
เรณThai · Thai●3.5K records
ሄለንEthiopic · Amharic●632 records
ԱլենArmenian · Armenian●613 records
হেলেনBengali · Bangla●82 records

20 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elena in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, ES Spain and 5 more, Елена in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BG Bulgaria and 1 more, Helen in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 1 more and Helena in BR Brazil, PL Poland, NL Netherlands.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Alena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#239,876,69313M rec.—#3Елена275
UA Ukraine#210,421,04210M rec.—listedОлена153
IN India#255,827,3001.8M rec.—481Renu203
AR Argentina#502,854,3531.8M rec.—134KElena150
MX Mexico#221,760,6491.4M rec.—7.2KElena227
GB United Kingdom#111,663,9521.6M rec.—38Alan288
PE Peru#32733,299628K rec.——Elena96
AU Australia#17692,457660K rec.—106Helen301
TR Türkiye#131634,80676K rec.—3.3KЕлена60
VE Venezuela#40573,195432K rec.——Elena101
PH Philippines#12507,290485K rec.—27KHelen144
FR France#28506,990746K rec.1 in 134507KHelene362

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Czech982K77%
  • Russian111K9%
  • English59K5%
  • Polish26K2%
  • German19K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech981,80677%
Russian111,1349%
English58,6105%
Polish25,7792%
German19,3962%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Alena is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name93K records spelled Alena26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

    Also written Aelena, Alëna, Aléna, Alèna, Aleña

  • a separate given name5.4K records spelled Alena6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Alëna, Aleñá, Ale͏̈na, Aleña, Aleñà

  • Finnish given name4.0K records spelled Alena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States, Slovenia, Estonia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Aléna

  • Hindi given name3.1K records spelled Alena6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written আলেনা

  • Latvian given name679 records spelled Alena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania, United States, Russia

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Alēna, Aļena

  • Amharic given name414 records spelled Alena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, Russia, Türkiye

    Also written አለና

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Alena is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • German and Czech: aphetic short form of Magdalena (see MAGDALENE ).

    as a word

  • In Belarusian, Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet) spelling of Але́на (Aljéna)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, alternative form of ALÉNA (NAFTA)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, to walk while telling story

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, essive singular of ale

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In kw, thence, from there

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0200400600190019502000499 · 2015

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Alena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1891–2025
Yearrecords
18915
18935
18947
18968
189813
18995
19007
19028
19036
19055
19069
19076
19086
19095
19106
19117
19126
191314
191413
191518
191622
191716
191820
191913
192025
192116
192224
19239
192420
192521
192616
192716
192821
192912
193013
193114
19329
19339
193415
19359
193710
193815
193912
19408
19418
194212
194311
19448
194517
194613
19479
194813
194914
195016
195112
19529
195315
195415
195528
195617
195730
195822
195930
196028
196124
196231
196355
196453
196543
196648
196757
196839
196968
197068
197161
197272
197373
197488
197575
197695
1977101
1978112
1979124
1980151
1981139
1982133
1983115
198491
1985163
1986120
1987119
1988118
1989158
1990157
1991141
1992173
1993186
1994205
1995246
1996258
1997260
1998280
1999290
2000321
2001346
2002333
2003400
2004406
2005401
2006431
2007433
2008445
2009401
2010385
2011369
2012374
2013375
2014465
2015499
2016471
2017466
2018377
2019386
2020417
2021372
2022388
2023339
2024375
2025398

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 129 years between 1891–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Alena Apina, b. 1964Alena Mihulová, b. 1965Alena Babenko, b. 1972Alena Vinnitskaya, b. 1974Alona Bondarenko, b. 1984Alyona Lanskaya, b. 1985Aliona Moon, b. 1989Alena Zavarzina, b. 1989Alyona Alyona, b. 1991Aiko, b. 1999

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Alena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—210K#22
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—105K#25
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,857
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6K#242
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20266K#242
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#2,478
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—893#1,517
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024880#316
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—756#1,941
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—736#1,828
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022484—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—478#13,708

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 696 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Alena?
We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Alena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Alena have the most bearers?
Alena is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.
How common is Alena compared with other names?
In Russia, Alena is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Alena a male or female name?
Alena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Alena” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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