Alyona

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⭐ Famous Alyona

Alyona Lanskaya

Belarusian singer

Choose Alyona and your child shares a first name with Alyona Lanskaya, a Belarusian singer. A ready-made answer when someone asks “Alyona, like who?” Alyona Lanskaya's Wikipedia article is available in 37 languages, a good sign of just how widely known they are.

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• 👶How commonAbout 1 in every 200,000 baby girls born in the US in 2025 was named Alyona, 8 babies in all. In a typical school of 500 kids, your Alyona would very likely be the only one.
• 📜HistoryAlyona first shows up in US birth records in 1991, the first year at least 5 babies got it. It has been in use for 34 years since.
• 🏆Best yearIts best year was 2015, when it reached #6,721.
• 🍂TrendAlyona has slipped 2,948 places over the last five years and now sits at #10,917. Good news if you want a familiar name that fewer kids will share.
• 💬MeaningAlyona is a Russian form of Helen, which means “torch, light”. Our records link it to English, Scottish and Slavic roots.

About the name Alyona

Alyona is a girl name of English, Scottish and Slavic origin meaning “torch, light”. It has 6 letters and 3 syllables, starting with A and ending in “-ona”. US birth records list Alyona for girls from 1991 to 2025, in 31 of those 35 years. Its best year was 2015, when it ranked #6,721 among girl names. In 2025 it ranked #10,917, with 8 babies.

Origin:English namesScottish namesSlavic names