Aliona

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ალიონა in GE Georgia and Алиона in KZ Kazakhstan.

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.

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Aliona is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Greek given name125 records spelled Aliona3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, Cyprus, United States, Italy

  Also written Αλιονα, Αλιόνα

• Bulgarian given name102 records spelled Aliona8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Italy, United Kingdom, Russia

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

  Also written Алиона

27 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●

Aliona is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A transliteration of the Russian female given name Алёна (Aljóna).

  as a word·kaikki.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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 15 years between 2006–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Aliona Zanderb. 1961USjournalist
• Yelena Bondarchukb. 1962RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress (1962–2009)
• Alena Anisimb. 1962BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian politician
• Alena V. Ledenevab. 1964GBnot in their usual nameBritish sociologist
• Yelena Biryukovab. 1970RUnot in their usual nameactor
• Alena Vinnitskayab. 1974UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian singer
• Yelena Leuchankab. 1983BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian basketball player (born 1983)
• Alona Bondarenkob. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian tennis player
• Alena Baevab. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian violinist
• Alyona Alyonab. 1991UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian rapper

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 94 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aliona?

We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Aliona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Aliona have the most bearers?

We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Aliona in Moldova, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled aliona.

Where is Aliona most common?

Aliona is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 141 people carrying it.

How common is Aliona compared with other names?

In Moldova, Aliona is the 40th most common given name of 2,579 given names recorded there.

Is Aliona a male or female name?

Aliona 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.