Elena
English
Etymology
From Italian and Spanish Elena, cognate to English Helen.
Proper noun
Elena (plural Elenas)
- A female given name from Italian, Spanish, or Ancient Greek.
- A surname originating as a matronymic.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Elena is the 39717th 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.
See also
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Elena”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 520.
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elena f
- a female given name
Declension
Related terms
Danish
Etymology
From Italian and Spanish Elena.
Proper noun
Elena
- a female given name of modern usage
Finnish
Etymology
From Italian and Spanish Elena.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elena
- a female given name of modern usage
Declension
Inflection of Elena (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Elena | Elenat | ||
genitive | Elenan | Elenoiden Elenoitten | ||
partitive | Elenaa | Elenoita | ||
illative | Elenaan | Elenoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Elena | Elenat | ||
accusative | nom. | Elena | Elenat | |
gen. | Elenan | |||
genitive | Elenan | Elenoiden Elenoitten Elenain rare | ||
partitive | Elenaa | Elenoita | ||
inessive | Elenassa | Elenoissa | ||
elative | Elenasta | Elenoista | ||
illative | Elenaan | Elenoihin | ||
adessive | Elenalla | Elenoilla | ||
ablative | Elenalta | Elenoilta | ||
allative | Elenalle | Elenoille | ||
essive | Elenana | Elenoina | ||
translative | Elenaksi | Elenoiksi | ||
abessive | Elenatta | Elenoitta | ||
instructive | — | Elenoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
- Elena is the 203rd 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.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Italian and Spanish Elena.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elena f (proper noun, genitive Elenas or (with an article) Elena)
- a female given name, variant of Helene
Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elena f
- a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen
Proper noun
Elena m or f by sense
- a surname originating as a matronymic
Further reading
Elena on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
- Stefano Ravara, Mappa dei Cognomi, 2015-2024
Anagrams
Latvian
Etymology
Proper noun
Elena f
- a female given name
References
- [1] Population Register of Latvia: Elena was the only given name of 1071 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.
Lithuanian
Proper noun
Elena f
- a female given name
Norwegian
Etymology
From Italian Elena and Spanish Elena.
Proper noun
Elena
- a female given name of modern usage
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elena f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helen
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Ileana.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Elena f
- a female given name
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elena f (genitive singular Eleny, nominative plural Eleny, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “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, 2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Elena f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Helen
Swedish
Etymology
From Italian and Spanish Elena.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Elena c (genitive Elenas)
- a female given name of modern usage
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔeˈlena/ [ʔɛˈlɛː.n̪ɐ]
- Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: E‧le‧na
Proper noun
Elena (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎᜒᜈ)
- a female given name from Spanish
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English female given names from Italian
- English female given names from Spanish
- English female given names from Ancient Greek
- English surnames
- English surnames from matronymics
- English surnames from Italian
- English surnames from Spanish
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech given names
- Czech female given names
- Czech hard feminine nouns
- Danish terms derived from Italian
- Danish terms derived from Spanish
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish given names
- Danish female given names
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish terms derived from Spanish
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/elenɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/elenɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- German terms derived from Italian
- German terms derived from Spanish
- German 3-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German given names
- German female given names
- Italian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛlena
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛlena/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian given names
- Italian female given names
- Italian female given names from Ancient Greek
- Italian proper nouns with irregular gender
- Italian masculine nouns
- Italian nouns with multiple genders
- Italian masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Italian surnames
- Italian surnames from matronymics
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian proper nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian given names
- Latvian female given names
- Lithuanian lemmas
- Lithuanian proper nouns
- Lithuanian feminine nouns
- Lithuanian given names
- Lithuanian female given names
- Norwegian terms derived from Italian
- Norwegian terms derived from Spanish
- Norwegian lemmas
- Norwegian proper nouns
- Norwegian given names
- Norwegian female given names
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese given names
- Portuguese female given names
- Romanian terms borrowed from Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Romanian doublets
- Romanian terms with audio links
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian proper nouns
- Romanian feminine nouns
- Romanian given names
- Romanian female given names
- Slovak 3-syllable words
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak proper nouns
- Slovak feminine nouns
- Slovak given names
- Slovak female given names
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ena
- Rhymes:Spanish/ena/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish given names
- Spanish female given names
- Swedish terms derived from Italian
- Swedish terms derived from Spanish
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish given names
- Swedish female given names
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog 3-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ena
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ena/3 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog given names
- Tagalog female given names
- Tagalog female given names from Spanish