Helena

A Latinate form of Helen, from Latin Helena.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛlənə/

Helena

1. A female given name.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. As it Hath Beene Sundry Times Publikely Acted, by the Right Honourable, the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants, [London]: Printed by Iames Roberts, published 1600, OCLC 35186948, [Act III, scene ii]:

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

2. The capital city of the state of Montana in the United States of America, and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County.
3. A city in Alabama.
4. A city in Phillips County, Arkansas; see also Helena-West Helena.
5. A city in Telfair County, Georgia, USA, part of McRae-Helena since 2015.
6. A census-designated place in Mississippi.
7. A hamlet in New York.
8. A village in Ohio.
9. A town in Oklahoma.
10. 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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛlɛna]

Helena f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Helen.

• Ilona f

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

Helena

1. A female given name.

• IPA^(key): /ɦeˈleːnɑ/

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Helena ?

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

• Heleen, Leen

Helena

1. A female given name, cognate to English Helen.

• 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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhelenɑ]
• Hyphenation: 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.

   • 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?

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

Latinate variant of German Helene (“Helen”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛˌlɛna]

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• Hyphenation: He‧le‧na

Helena

1. A female given name.

Borrowed from English Helen.

• IPA^(key): /heˈle.na/, [hɛˈlɛnə]

Helena

1. A female given name.

• 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.

• Helene

From Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhe.le.na/, [ˈhɛ.ɫɛ.na]

Helena f (genitive Helenae); first declension

1. Helen

First declension.

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: Ileana
    • → Italian: Ileana
    • → Spanish: Ileana
• Italian: Elena
• Old French: Elene, Elaine
  • → English: Elaine
• Old Portuguese: [Term?]
  • Portuguese: Elena, Helena
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • 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
  • → 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.

• IPA^(key): /xɛˈlɛ.na/

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Helena f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Helen.

• Elena

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /e.ˈle.nɐ/

Helena f

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Helen

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɛlɛna/

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

1. A female given name.

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

• Helena in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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

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.