Helena

A Latinate form of Helen, from Latin Helena.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlənə/
• IPA^(key): (esp. Southern US) /hɛˈliːnə/

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Helena

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Stay gentle Helena, heare my excuſe: / My loue, my life, my ſoule, faire Helena.

2. The capital city of Montana, United States and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.
3. A city in Alabama.
4. A city in Arkansas.
5. A town in Oklahoma.
6. A village in Ohio.
7. A census-designated place in Mississippi.
8. A hamlet in New York.
9. A ghost town in Texas.

• Helena-West Helena
• McRae-Helena
• Saint Helena, St. Helena

• Lehane, anhele

Helena f

1. Helena

From English Helena, from Latin Helena.

Helena

1. a female given name from Latin

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛlɛna]

Helena f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

• See Helén

• Helena in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Helena in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

A Latinate variant of Danish Helene (“Helen”).

Helena

1. a female given name

Ultimately from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

• IPA^(key): /ɦeːˈleːnaː/

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• Hyphenation: He‧le‧na

Helena f

1. a female given name, a Latinate variant of Heleen (=Helen)

• Heleen, Leen

From Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Jelena.

Helena

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Helen

• Heleene, Elina, Elle, Ellen, Hele, Helen, Heleri, Heli, Helina, Helle, Ilona

Ultimately, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen.

Helena f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Helena: Helenuson
• daughter of Helena: Helenudóttir

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen. Doublet of Elina, Helinä, Elena, and Jelena.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelenɑ/, [ˈhe̞le̞nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elenɑ
• Syllabification^(key): He‧le‧na

Helena

1. a female given name
   • 1984, Veronica Pimenoff, Loistava Helena, Tammi, →ISBN, page 55:

     Se ei koskaan unohtanut Helenan nimipäivää, vaan päivitteli joka vuosi typerään tapaansa että Helena oli niitä nimiä jotka sukupolvesta toiseen säilyttivät asemansa. Aika oudosti sanottu Maggi-tädiltä. No, olihan noita Helenoita.

     She had never forgotten Helena's name day, but always bemoaned that Helena is one of thsoe names that endured from one generation to another. Weird coming from aunt Maggi. Well, yes, Helenas were indeed a thing.

   • 1991, Orvokki Kangas, Marraslapsi, Karisto, →ISBN, page 17:

     Eeva kysyi Matiakselta, tuntuisiko tästä turhamaiselta tai herraskaiselta, jos lapsen kutsumanimeksi pantaisiin Helena. Hän kertoi myös kotikylän nimikkokukasta. Hänen rakkautensa kukkaan oli saanut alkunsa Helenan tarinasta.
     —Aivan hyvä nimi, sanoi Matias, —sopisikohan siihen vielä Loviisa-äidin nimi?

     Eeva asked Matias whether it would seem conceited or fanciful to give the child a name like Helena' and told of the flower the village was named after. Her love to the flower had begun from Helenas story.
     —It's a pretty good name, Matias said, —could the mother's name Loviisa also fit with it?

• Elina, Ellen, Elli, Heleena, Heli, Helinä, Helli, Hellin, Ilona, Leena

• Helena is the 53^rd most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 12,343 female individuals (and as a middle name to 108,667 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Latinate variant of German Helene (“Helen”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛˌlena]

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• Hyphenation: He‧le‧na

Helena

1. a female given name

Borrowed from English Helen.

• IPA^(key): /heˈle.na/, [hɛˈlɛ.nə]

Helena

1. a female given name from English

• ʻElena
• Helene

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 185
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Helena occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 6 women.

Helena f

1. a female given name

• Helene

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le.na/, [ˈhɛɫ̪ɛnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.le.na/, [ˈɛːlenä]

Helena f (genitive Helenae); first declension

1. Helen

First-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: Ileana
    • → Italian: Ileana
    • → Spanish: Ileana
• Italian: Elena
• Old French: Elene, Elaine
  • → English: Elaine
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Portuguese: Elena, Helena
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: Elena
• Sardinian: Elene

From Italian and Spanish Elena

• → English: Elena
• → Czech: Elena
• → Danish: Elena
• → Finnish: Elena
• → German: Elena
• → Latvian: Elēna, Elena
• → Norwegian: Elena
• → Swedish: Elena

Medieval borrowings

• → Danish: Elin
• → English: Ellen
  • → Hawaiian: ʻElena
• → Faroese: Elin
• → Finnish: Elina, Eliina
• → Hungarian: Ilona
  • → Czech: Ilona
  • → Estonian: Ilona
  • → Finnish: Ilona
  • → German: Ilona
  • → Latvian: Ilona
  • → Lithuanian: Ilona
  • → Polish: Ilona
• → Irish: Léan
• → Latvian: Elīna
• → Lithuanian: Elena
• → Norwegian: Elin
• → Swedish: Elin, Elina
• → Welsh: Elen

Modern borrowings

• → Alemannic German: Helene
• → Basque: Helena
• → Breton: Elena
• → Catalan: Helena
• → Czech: Helena
• → Danish: Helena, Helene
• → Dutch: Helena, Heleen
• → English: Helena
• → English: Helen
• → Estonian: Helena, Helina
• → Faroese: Helena
• → Finnish: Helena
• → French: Hélène
  • → Armenian: Էլեն (Ēlen)
  • → English: Helen
  • → Swedish: Hélène
• → German: Helena, Helene
• → Greek: Ελενα (Elena)
• → Hungarian: Heléna, Helené
• → Karelian: Heta
• → Latvian: Helēna
• → Lithuanian: Helenė
• → Northern Sami: Helená, Heleainná
• → Norwegian: Helena, Helene
• → Polish: Helena
• → Portuguese: Helena
• → Romanian: Elena
• → Spanish: Helena
• → Slovak: Helena, Elena
• → Slovene: Helena
• → Swedish: Helena, Helene
• → Yiddish: העלענע (Helene)

“Helena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Latinate variant of Norwegian Helene (“Helen”).

Helena

1. a female given name

Learned borrowing from Latin Helena.

• IPA^(key): /xɛˈlɛ.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: He‧le‧na
• Homophone: helena

Helena f (diminutive Helenka or Hela)

1. (countable) a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek], equivalent to English Helen
2. (uncountable, Greek mythology) Helen (goddess worshipped in Laconia and Rhodes)
3. (uncountable, Greek mythology) Helen (daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War)
4. (uncountable, astronomy) Helene (moon of Saturn)

• Helena in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Helena in PWN's encyclopedia

• Elena

Learned borrowing from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

• Hyphenation: He‧le‧na

Helena f (plural Helenas)

1. a female given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Helen

• Lena

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛlɛna/

Helena f (genitive singular Heleny, nominative plural Heleny, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• Helenka, Helenôčka
• Hela, Helka
• Heluša, Heluška
• Ela, Elka
• Eluša, Eluška

• “Helena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē), cognate with English Helen. First recorded in Sweden in the 12th century.

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Helena c (genitive Helenas)

1. a female given name

• Elin, Elina, Ellen, Elna, Helen, Helén, Helene, Hélène, Lena

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 82 717 females with the given name Helena living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.