Alena
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 45 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2024
/(j)ɪˈlʲenə/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from елена
Alena is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- CZCzechia1 in 51(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 29as Елена
- BYBelarus≈1 in 36as Елена
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 Alena 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)
- #2 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51 (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000,000 named Елена, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Елена in RU Russia, BY Belarus, FI Finland, Олена in UA Ukraine, Rina in IN India and Helena in BR Brazil.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Alena, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Alena 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 | #2 | ≈5,000,000 est. | ≈1 in 29 | register #3 | Елена | 309 |
| IN India | #32 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 481 | Rina | 215 |
| UA Ukraine | #2 | ≈920,000 est. | ≈1 in 41 | listed | Олена | 174 |
| IT Italy | #13 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 153 | 191 | Elena | 238 |
| BR Brazil | #17 | 366,186as Helena | 1 in 578 | 366K | Helena | 227 |
| GR Greece | #9 | 272,590as Ελένη | 1 in 39 | 520K | Ελενη | 198 |
| BY Belarus | #1 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 36 | 39 | Елена | 81 |
| CZ Czechia | #10 | 210,186 | 1 in 51 | 210K | Alena | 151 |
| FI Finland | — | 117,524as Helena | 1 in 47 | 175K | Елена | 116 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ELSTAT — population given names; According to a survey conducted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), the most popular male and female names i; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); MVČR — living population register 2017; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Alena is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German and Czech: aphetic short form of Magdalena (see MAGDALENE ).
as a word
In Belarusian, Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet) spelling of Але́на (Aljéna)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, alternative form of ALÉNA (NAFTA)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, to walk while telling story
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, essive singular of ale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, thence, from there
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alena Apinab. 1964RUSoviet and Russian actress,singer
- Alena Mihulováb. 1965CZCzech actress
- Alena Babenkob. 1972RUactor
- Alena Vinnitskayab. 1974UAUkrainian singer
- Alona Bondarenkob. 1984UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian tennis player
- Alyona Lanskayab. 1985BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian singer
- Aliona Moonb. 1989MDnot in their usual nameMoldovan singer
- Alena Zavarzinab. 1989RURussian snowboarder
- Alyona Alyonab. 1991UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian rapper
- Aikob. 1999CZnot in their usual nameCzech singer-songwriter
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)86 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 210K | #22 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 105K | #25 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 736 | #919 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 484 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 478 | #13,708 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 351 | #17,909 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 212 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 58 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #27,469 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 11 | #886 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Alena?
- It depends on the language: in Russian /(j)ɪˈlʲenə/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /ˈalɛna/ (Wiktionary).
- What are other forms of the name Alena?
- In the etymology graph, Nelly, Lena and Nellie are forms of the same name in other languages; Alenka is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Elena and Magdalena.
- How common is the name Alena?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 210,186 people named Alena, about 1 in 51 residents.
- How common is Alena compared with other names?
- In Russia, Alena is the 2nd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- Is Alena a male or female name?
- Alena is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Poland (dane.gov.pl), Spain (INE) and Austria (Statistik Austria, 2024), among others.
- In which country does Alena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 million people named Елена in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Alena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Alena is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 51 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Alena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alenaThe 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, “Alena” — the 2nd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.