Lena
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[edit] English
[edit] Proper noun
Lena
- A female given name, from the Scandinavian, German and Russian pet form of Helena, Magdalena and Yelena (also spelled Elena).
- Lena River, flowing 2,734 miles from the Baikal Mountains of Siberia to the Arctic Ocean.
[edit] Translations
female given name
Lena River
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[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Danish
[edit] Proper noun
Lena
- A female given name derived from Helena and Magdalena.
[edit] German
[edit] Proper noun
Lena
- A female given name derived from Helena and Magdalena.
[edit] Norwegian
[edit] Proper noun
Lena
- A female given name derived from Helena and Magdalena.
[edit] Polish
[edit] Proper noun
Lena f.
- A female given name, Lena.
- A diminutive of the female given name Milena.
- A diminutive of the female given name Helena.
- Lena, a river in Russia.
[edit] Declension
declension of Lena
[edit] Swedish
[edit] Etymology
Short form of Magdalena and Helena. First recorded in Sweden in 1481.
[edit] Proper noun
Lena
- A female given name.
[edit] References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
- [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 82 984 females with the given name Lena living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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- English proper nouns
- English female given names from Ancient Greek
- English female given names from Hebrew
- en:Rivers
- en:Russia
- Danish female given names
- German female given names
- Norwegian female given names
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish female given names
- Polish diminutives of female given names
- pl:Rivers
- pl:Russia
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish female given names