Given name
Helēna
“the shining light”
Helēna has a related form in Elena. In Spanish use, Elena carries the interpretation “the shining light.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Helēna has a related form in Elena. In Spanish use, Elena carries the interpretation “the shining light.”
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Helēna developed from Ἑλένη.
Helēna’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Helēna has a diminutive in LIENE. In Latvian usage, Helēna shares a linguistic root with the English form Helen. In Latvian usage, Helēna has a related form in Elena.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Helēna has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Helēna comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Helēna
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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Helüś is a given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Vilamovian.
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Hellas
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