Olena

given name · Ukrainian · Latin script

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

Olena is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ukrainian Оле́на (Oléna).

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●

Derivation of Olena: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Olena
  1. UkrainianОле́наOléna●
  2. Old Church SlavonicЕленаElena◐via Оле́на
  3. Ancient GreekἙλένηHelénē◐via Оле́на

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

Borrowed from Ukrainian Оле́на (Oléna).

Sources 2

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Olena 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●

  • Ukrainian1.4M75%
  • Polish344K19%
  • Spanish15K1%
  • English14K1%
  • Finnish12K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Ukrainian1,381,39175%
Polish343,78319%
Spanish15,1001%
English14,4001%
Finnish11,5091%

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◐

Olena is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name24K records spelled Olena6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese

    Also written Oleña, Oléna

  • English given name24K records spelled Olena8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Ukraine, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written O'Lena, Oléna

  • a separate given name3.2K records spelled Olena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Russia, Finland

    Also written Oléna

47 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●

Olena is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "hart." Fem of Olen. May also be a var of Elena.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In English, A female given name from Ukrainian, equivalent to English Helen.

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

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

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

  • Ukrainian form of HELEN .

    as a word

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●

01020304019001950200035 · 2024

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Olena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1882–2025
Yearrecords
18825
18835
18865
18945
18976
18987
18996
19017
19037
19067
19078
191012
19115
191211
191311
191411
191514
191610
191716
191815
191910
192019
192117
19229
192311
192410
19257
192615
192718
192814
192911
193013
193113
193210
19337
193410
19356
19366
19375
19387
19395
19415
19425
19447
19475
19486
19496
19506
19516
19528
19547
19558
19585
19616
19625
19655
19725
19755
19777
19787
19796
19805
19818
19835
19958
19976
19987
200011
20017
20026
20036
20047
20056
200610
200712
20089
20097
20108
201115
20128
20139
201411
201522
201613
201712
201819
201912
202018
202126
202232
202323
202435
202521

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 93 years between 1882–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Olena Pchilka, b. 1849Olena Teliha, b. 1906Olena Antonova, b. 1972Elena Grushina, b. 1975Olena Lukash, b. 1976Olena Kravets, b. 1977Olena Zelenska, b. 1978Aliona Savchenko, b. 1984Olena Topolia, b. 1986Olena Kravatska, b. 1992

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 59 sources across 29 countries.

Official registers attesting Olena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—85K#68
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202685K#68
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—10K#402
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—5.8K#802
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205K#3,925
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—3.6K#777
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.1K#647
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20252.6K—
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—1.5K#93
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.5K#303
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.4K#1,336
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—1.1K#402

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 · 499 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Olena?
We estimate roughly 2.3 million people bear Olena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Olena have the most bearers?
Olena is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled елена.
How common is Olena compared with other names?
In Russia, Olena is the 2nd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Olena a male or female name?
Olena 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 Olena mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ukrainian Оле́на (Oléna).
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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, “Olena” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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