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Also of Brazilian Potugusese usage.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/elen/top/brazil
Last year (2021) 3 baby girls were given the name Elen in Poland. It was not ranked among middle names for babies though. As of January of this year there have been 50 women with this name in Poland.
In January of this year, there were 42 women bearing this first name in Poland. 7 used it as a middle name. No baby girls were given this name last year.
The standard Polish version of this name is Helena, but last year (2019) 2 baby girls in Poland were given the name Elen as a first name. In January 2020, 39 women in the Polish population had this name as a first name. 7 women had it as a middle name.
Apparently also occasionally used in Slovene: https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elen
Also Breton usage.
What about Armenia? Here Elen is one of the most famous names and a long time ago I even thought it was an Armenian name.
This name is becoming more and more popular in the Czech Republic as another form of the name Elena (which is, in the Czech Republic, more associated with Slovakian or Russian names. Russian form is pronounced Jelena.). Elena, however, has been in the official Czech nameday calendar for a long time. Elen has not been entered in the calendar yet but celebrates nameday on 16/03, same as Elena.In 2014, 288 babies were named Elen.
There were 195 Elens in Prague in 2014.
Elen is also the Armenian form of Helen and is currently very popular in Armenia.
Elen is also the Czech form.
Name Day: 16th March.
Nicknames: Ela, Elke, Elli, Elenica, Elea.

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