Elena is a popular female given name of Greek origin. The name means "shining light". Nicknames of the name Elena are Lena, Lennie, Ella, Ellie, Nellie, or Nena (less common).
Other common variants are Alena (German, Czech, Russian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian); Alenka (Slovenian); Alyona (Russian); Elene (Georgian); Helen (English); Hélène (French); Helena (Latin, Polish); Eliana (Portuguese); Eline (Dutch, Norwegian, Sranan Tongo); Ileana (Romanian, Italian, Spanish); Ilona (Hungarian, Finnish, Latvian); Ilana (Greek); Olena (Ukrainian); Leena (Finnish); and Elena/Yelena/Jelena (Russian, Serbian, Croatian).
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Notable people
Middle name
Maria Elena Camerin (born 1982), Italian tennis player
Maria Elena Kyriakou (born 1984), Greek Cypriot singer
In fiction
Elena, from Street Fighter III, Ultra Street Fighter IV, and Street Fighter VI
Elena, a character played by Hazera Ambce in the British web series Corner Shop Show
Elena, a priestess from Grandia II
Elena, a lord and the illegitimate daughter of Thomas Covenant
Elena, an 18-year-old girl from the Wii game Pandora's Tower
Elena, a Soviet scientist in the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey
Elena, played by Vera Filatova, is a resident of Apollo House and one of Jez's love interests in the British TV series Peep Show
Elena Alvarez, teenage daughter on the 2017 British TV series One Day at a Time
Elena Amamiya, a character in Star Twinkle PreCure
Elena Bothari-Jesek, a childhood friend of Miles' and later a leader of the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet from the Vorkosigan Saga
Elena Cañero-Reed, the main character from the TV show Diary of a Future President
Elena Castillo Flores, a Disney princess from the animated television series Elena of Avalor
Elena Chávez, abuela to the titular protagonists from the animated children's series Maya & Miguel
Elena Fisher, a character in the Uncharted series
Elena Gilbert, from The Vampire Diaries
Elena Greco, character in the Neapolitan Novels, a 4-part series by the Italian author Elena Ferrante
Elena Michaels, in the Women of the Otherworld series
Elena Potato, from the comic book and animated series Monster Allergy
Elena Ramos, from Dallas
Elena Rivera, from the Pixar animated film Coco
Elena of Turks, from Final Fantasy VII
Elena Tulaska from the science fiction TV series Black Mirror episode entitled USS Callister, parts 1 and 2
Elena Tyler, a character portrayed by Tangi Miller on the 1998–2002 Warner Bros. series Felicity
Elena Montero de la Vega, character from The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro
Elena, a character in the episode Boo to a Goose from British TV show Inside No 9