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Given name · Ukrainian

Світлана

Світлана (Svitlána) is a feminine given name from Russian. It is used in Ukrainian.

UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Svetlana.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Світлана comes from Russian.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Russian Светла́на.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Світлана’s family of names

In Ukrainian usage, Світлана has a conventional equivalent in the English form Svetlana. In Ukrainian usage, Світлана has a conventional equivalent in the English form SVITLANA. In Ukrainian usage, Світлана can be written in the Roman alphabet as Svitlána.

Walk Світлана’s family in the name graph

СвітланаSvìtlanaSvitlánaSvetlanaSviatlanaSvetaСветланаСвятланаSvětlanaŚwietlana

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Світлана has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.

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6 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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