Alena Wicker is an American 12-year-old girl who has just joined university. Her dream has always been to work at NASA. She also wants to be an example for girls, women and black people like her, so she founded her own Internet website, "Brown Stem Girl" to support and encourage girls who are keen on astronomy.
Alena Kostornaia, born 24.08.2003, is a Russian famous figure skater. She is the winner of the 2019 Junior Grand-Prix Final, which is really a big competition in figure skating. Also she is two-time national senior bronze medalist. She had silver medal at 2018 Junior World Championships. Although she hasn't lots of titles, she owes a world record in junior short program and skates consistently, with lots of grace and musicality. Watching her is real joy. Her "Angel" program is even considered by some specialists to be the greatest ever!
Alen is not a masculine form of Alena, Alena is a short form of Helena and Magdalena, feminine names. Alen is a form of Alen. Still, both names are nice.
― Anonymous User 9/17/2017
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The name 'Alena' or in Poland it might be called 'Alina', means 'bright and beautiful', specifically in the Polish language.
― Anonymous User 5/15/2017
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It can be derived either from the Old High German word for "precious" or from the Irish language term "a leanbh"" or "child", in English.In Gaelic Alannah as itself is the term for "beauty" or "serenity". It's sometimes considered a feminine form of Alan.
I was named Alena after someone from the former Czechoslovakia. Alena pronounced it Oll-in-a and because I was her namesake she always called me Alenka pronounced Oll-inka. I have always thought my name was beautiful and different.
Alena Seredova is a showgirl, actress, sports manager and model from the Czech Republic. She began her modeling career at 15 years old and went on to represent Czech Republic at Miss World 1998. She got married to the Italian keeper in 2011, and the marriage lasted three years. They have two sons, Louis Thomas Buffon and David Lee.
Czech pet form is Alenka, which was used instead of "Alice" in the translation of "Alice in the Wonderland" (probably because Alice might sound rather rough and foreign in Czech.) Alenka by itself is also quite a commonly used Czech name.
I do not remember what website I got this information from but I had read that Alena is the Greek version of Helen, and therefore has the same meaning as Helen, some interpreting it as "torch" and some interpreting it as "light".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Alena [noted -ed]