Alena

Where Alena comes from

Alena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1891
    First appearance
    #1,332 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1931
    Alena Vrzáňová born
    Czech figure skater
  3. 1978
    Alena Šeredová born
    Czech actress and model
  4. 2015
    Peak, #596
    499 babies named Alena — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Alena Šeredová · Czech actress and model, born 1978
  • Alena Vrzáňová · Czech figure skater, 1931–2015
  • Alena Neumiarzhitskaya · Belarusian sprinter, born 1980
  • Alena Anisim · Belarusian politician, born 1962
  • Alena Procházková · Slovak cross-country skier, born 1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.