Swetlana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/svlaːna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Swetlana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 896(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 49as Светлана
- UAUkraine≈1 in 57as Світлана
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Swetlana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #26 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 896 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900,000 named Светлана, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Светлана in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more, סבטלנה in MD Moldova, LV Latvia, Світлана in UA Ukraine and Svitlana in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Swetlana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #11 | ≈2,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 49 | #11 | Светлана | 272 |
| UA Ukraine | #16 | ≈770,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | listed | Світлана | 150 |
| BY Belarus | #10 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 59 | 106 | Светлана | 67 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #9 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 161 | 11K | Светлана | 78 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #30 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 485 | — | Светлана | 32 |
| PL Poland | #717 | 61,775as Svitlana | 1 in 620 | 62K | Svitlana | 71 |
| MD Moldova | #44 | 51,902as Svetlana | 1 in 65 | 52K | סבטלנה | 41 |
| LV Latvia | #22 | 18,013as Svetlana | 1 in 104 | 18K | סבטלנה | 77 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #166 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 896 | — | Şwetlana | 14 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); e-services.md — living population register; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Svetlana Alliluyevab. 1926RUnot in their usual nameJoseph Stalin's daughter (1926–2011)
- Svetlana Svetlichnayab. 1940RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress (1940–2024)
- Lana Woodb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Svetlana Savitskayab. 1948RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut
- Svetlana Masterkovab. 1968RUnot in their usual nameRussian middle-distance runner
- Cecab. 1973RSnot in their usual nameSerbian singer
- Svetlana Khorkinab. 1979RUnot in their usual nameRussian artistic gymnast
- Svetlana Viktorovna Khodtchenkovab. 1983RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Svetlana Kuznetsovab. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian tennis player
- Svetlana Ivanovab. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #3,488 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 27 | #3,489 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Swetlana?
- A machine transcription gives /svlaːna/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Swetlana a male or female name?
- Swetlana 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.
- In which country does Swetlana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 million people named Светлана in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Swetlana?
- In Poland, the national register counted 61,775 people named Svitlana in 2026, about 1 in 620 residents.
- How common is Swetlana compared with other names?
- In Russia, Swetlana is the 11th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/swetlanaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Swetlana” — the 11th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.