Jelena

given name · Croatian · Latin script

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

Jelena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Lithuanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Еле́на (Jeléna), equivalent to Helen.

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

21 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●

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Еле́на (Jeléna), equivalent to Helen

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Jelena 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●

  • Croatian162K45%
  • Lithuanian61K17%
  • Estonian26K7%
  • Serbian21K6%
  • English18K5%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian161,81845%
Lithuanian60,65717%
Estonian26,2287%
Serbian20,5016%
English17,6005%

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◐

Jelena is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name67K records spelled Jelena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, United States

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Jeļena, Jėlėna

  • Estonian given name33K records spelled Jelena5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Jeļena, Jélena

  • a separate given name3.4K records spelled Jelena5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United Kingdom

    Also written Jeļena, J̌elena, Jel̦ena, Jéléna

  • a separate given name204 records spelled Jelena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Norway, United States

    Also written Jeļena

  • Uzbek given name165 records spelled Jelena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan

    Also written Jeļena

43 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●

Jelena is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Lithuanian, a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

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

  • In Swedish, Jelena är en rysk form av → Helena.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In English, variant of Helen; "shining light"

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, [ji'ljenB]: weibl.

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Slovenian, a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen or Ellen

    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●

020406080196019802000202068 · 2017

Show as table
Jelena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1959–2025
Yearrecords
19595
19625
19645
19656
19685
19695
197010
19717
19726
197311
19749
19757
197610
197717
197810
197915
198013
198121
198214
198311
19856
198612
198713
198814
198910
199018
199114
199220
199323
199416
199524
199624
199719
199829
199929
200031
200121
200240
200345
200448
200544
200649
200751
200857
200946
201057
201158
201251
201347
201458
201549
201658
201768
201852
201939
202038
202129
202237
202339
202432
202526

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 61 years between 1959–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Elena Stasova, b. 1873Alena Apina, b. 1964Elena Podkaminskaya, b. 1979Elena Lyadova, b. 1980Elena Dementieva, b. 1981Yelena Isinbayeva, b. 1982Lena Katina, b. 1984Jelena Janković, b. 1985Gigi Hadid, b. 1995Elena Rybakina, b. 1999
  • Elena Stasovab. 1873RUnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary, soviet politician (1873–1966)
  • Alena Apinab. 1964RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress,singer
  • Elena Podkaminskayab. 1979RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
  • Elena Lyadovab. 1980RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
  • Elena Dementievab. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player
  • Yelena Isinbayevab. 1982RUnot in their usual nameRussian female Olympic pole-vaulter
  • Lena Katinab. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer, member of the duo t.A.T.u
  • Jelena Jankovićb. 1985RSSerbian tennis player
  • Gigi Hadidb. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican fashion model and television personality (born 1995)
  • Elena Rybakinab. 1999RUnot in their usual nameKazakhstani tennis player

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 72 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Jelena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202120K#36
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — top-50 given names—19K#36
LT LithuaniaRegistrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai—19K#36
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202117K—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—9.8K#3
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—9.8K#3
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.1K#5,547
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.6K#910
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.6K#293
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.6K#478
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.6K#163
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.6K#1,252

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 675 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jelena?
We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Jelena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Jelena have the most bearers?
Jelena is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.
How common is Jelena compared with other names?
In Russia, Jelena is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Jelena a male or female name?
Jelena 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.
What does the name Jelena mean?
Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian female given name Еле́на (Jeléna), equivalent to Helen
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jelena

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

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

See how Jelena parses inside a full name →