Alena

Alena

Pronunciation	/əˈlɛnə/ ə-LEN-ə Czech: [ˈalɛna] Russian: [ɐˈlʲɵnə]
Gender	Female
Origin
Meaning	Ray of light
Other names
Related names	Alina, Alenka, Lena, Lenka

Alena is a feminine given name from the origins Russia and Czechia.

People

Alena is a variant of Helen. People with this name include:

• Saint Alena (died 640), born in Dilbeek, Belgium, and martyred c. 640
• Alena Antalová (born 1972), Slovak actress
• Alena Douhan, Belarusian diplomat
• Alena Holubeva (born 1994), Belarusian basketball player
• Alena Lodkina, Russian-born Australian filmmaker, director of Strange Colours (2017)
• Alena Matejka (Alena Matějková, born 1966), Czech sculptor and glass designer
• Alena Mazouka (born 1967), Belarusian long-distance runner
• Alena Mihulová (born 1965), Czech actress, married to director Karel Kachyňa
• Alena Šeredová (born 1978), Czech model
• Alena Shirmanova (born 1999), Cezch singer known as Aiko
• Alena Vinnitskaya (born 1974), Ukrainian singer, songwriter, composer and TV presenter
• Alena Vránová (born 1932), Czech actress
• Alena Vrzáňová (1931–2015), Czech athlete, figure skater

It is also a Catalan last name. People with this name include:

• Carles Aleñá (born 1998), Spanish footballer

Fiction

• Alena (Encantadia), a fictional character who possesses the Gem of Water on several Filipino telefantasyas
• Alena Vorshevsky, a fictional character from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
• Alena (1947 film), a 1947 Czech film
• Alena (graphic novel), a Swedish graphic novel
  • Alena (2015 film), a 2015 Swedish film based on the graphic novel

Other uses

• ALENA (Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, lit. "Agreement of Free Trade, North American"), French acronym for the North American Free Trade Agreement
• Alena (snakefly), a genus of Raphidioptera snakeflies

See also

• Aleena (disambiguation)
• Alina (disambiguation)
• Alyona