Eléna

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Variant of Hélène, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries

Pronunciation:

Eléna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

  • MDMoldova1 in 35(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 309
  • FIFinland1 in 909

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

161,702 people

Record sources
523 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 35 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Elena in US United States, ES Spain.

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

(measured from records)

Variant of Hélène, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Eléna 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.

Where Eléna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#460161,7021 in 309162KElena162
US United States#598114,5401 in 2.9K114KElena523
MD Moldova—97,4341 in 3597K—50
BR Brazil—46,7731 in 4.5K47K—6
EC Ecuador—17,8031 in 95018K—33
CZ Czechia—10,7541 in 99511K—3
FI Finland—6,1281 in 9099.5K—41

161,702 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); e-services.md — living population register; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Eléna is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Èlena, Elèna, Ėlena, Elena, Elen̲ā

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Elena, 'Elena, Éléna, Ëlena, Ëlênã

  • Hungarian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Hungary, Romania, United States

    Also written Elena, Elenâ, Éléna, Èléna, Èlena

  • a separate given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Spain, Italy

    Also written Elena, Éléñå, Èlèná, Élénà, Elënä

9 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalBonjour Eléna,Hi Eléna, (English)

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)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Eléna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—13—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#51,600

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Eléna mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of Hélène, from Greek Helenē, 'torch' or 'bright one'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
Is Eléna a male or female name?
Eléna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2024).
In which country does Eléna have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 162 thousand people named Eléna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled elena.
Where is Eléna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eléna is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 35 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Eléna?
In Spain, the national register counted 161,702 people named Eléna, about 1 in 309 residents.
How common is Eléna compared with other names?
In Spain, Eléna is the 460th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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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, “Eléna” — the 460th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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