Elena

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Elena, cognate to English Helen.

Elena (plural Elenas)

1. A female given name from Italian, Spanish, or Ancient Greek.
   • 2024 July 25, Devan Cole, “Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court’s code of conduct needs an enforcement plan. Takeaways from her wide-ranging comments.”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective.

2. A surname originating as a matronymic.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Elena is the 39717^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 553 individuals. Elena is most common among Hispanic/Latino (82.64%) and White (15.01%) individuals.

• Santa Elena

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Elena”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 520.

• Elean, Neale, anele, leane

Elena f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlɛna]

Elena f

1. a female given name

From Italian and Spanish Elena.

Elena

1. a female given name of modern usage

From Italian and Spanish Elena.

• IPA^(key): /ˈelenɑ/, [ˈe̞le̞nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elenɑ
• Syllabification^(key): E‧le‧na
• Hyphenation^(key): E‧le‧na

Elena

1. a female given name of modern usage

• Elena is the 203^rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,990 female individuals (and as a middle name to 2,710 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Leena, aleen, alene, anele

From Italian and Spanish Elena.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlena/

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• Hyphenation: E‧le‧na

Elena f (proper noun, genitive Elenas or (with an article) Elena)

1. a female given name, variant of Helene

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.le.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛlena
• Hyphenation: È‧le‧na

Elena f

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen

Elena m or f by sense

1. a surname originating as a matronymic

• Elena on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015–2025

• leena

Variant of Elēna, Helēna.

Elena f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

• [2] Population Register of Latvia: Elena was the only given name of 1071 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Elena f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

From Italian Elena and Spanish Elena.

Elena

1. a female given name of modern usage

• Helena

Elena f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

Borrowed from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Ileana.

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Elena f

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlɛna/

Elena f (genitive singular Eleny, nominative plural Eleny, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• Elenka, Elenôčka
• Ela, Elka, Eluša
• Iľa, Iľuša

• “Elena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /eˈlena/ [eˈle.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: E‧le‧na

Elena f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

From Italian and Spanish Elena.

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Elena c (genitive Elenas)

1. a female given name of modern usage

Borrowed from Spanish Elena.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔeˈlena/ [ʔɛˈlɛː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: E‧le‧na

Elena (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎᜒᜈ)

1. a female given name from Spanish