Alena - Meaning of Alena

What does Alena mean?

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[ 3 syll. a-le-na, al-ena ] The baby girl name Alena is pronounced as aa-LEY-Naa- †. Alena has its origins in the Old Greek, Slavonic, Old French, and Hebrew languages. It is used largely in the Czech, English, German, Russian, and Slavic languages.

In addition, Alena is a derivative (Russian) of Alexandra.

Alena is also a derivative (English) of the English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish Alina.

Alena is also a derivative (English) of the English, Irish, and Gaelic Eileen.

Alena is also a contraction (Czech, German, Russian, and Slavic) of the Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Polish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, and Spanish Helena and a derivative (Czech, German, Russian, and Slavic) of the English Helen.

Alena is also a contraction (Czech) of Magdalena.

Alena is also a derivative of the Russian and Ukrainian Olena.

Alena has 15 derivatives. Derivatives of the name include Ailina, Aleana, Aleena, Aleina, Alenah, Alene, Alenea, Aleni, Alenia, Alenka, Alenna, Alennah, Alenya, Aliena, and Alyna.

The origin and meaning of the name Alena is inherited by all variant forms.

See also the related categories, english, greek, hebrew, slavic, czech, french, german, and russian.

Alena is somewhat popular as a baby girl name. The name has been growing in popularity since the 1990s. Its usage peaked modestly in 2015 with 0.026% of baby girls being given the name Alena. It had a ranking of #596 then. In 2018, it ranked at #736 with a usage of 0.020%. Among the family of girl names directly linked to Alena, Alexandra was the most frequently used. It was more regularly used than Alena by 6 times in 2018.

Baby names that sound like Alena include Alaina, Alayna, Aelani, Ailín, Alama, Alana, Alanae, Alanee, Alaney, Alani, Alanna, Alannie, Alany, Aleen, Aleena, Alene, Alhena, Alima, Alina, and Alleen.

† Pronunciation for Alena: AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"