Lena (first name)
Lena or Leni is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
Lena and Leni are short forms of various female first names such as Magdalena , Helena and Jelena / Yelena . The name Helena comes from the Greek. It goes back to the word "hele" = "sunshine" ( Helios = Greek sun god) and thus means "the shining one", "the torch", "the shine" or "the sun likeness". Helena in Greek mythology was the daughter of Zeus and Leda.
Magdalena is derived from Hebrew מגדל, "Tower", here. Maria Magdalena , a disciple of Jesus and witness to his resurrection, came from Magdala . Magdalena is a designation of origin here.
The Latin lēna means “ matchmaker ”.
variants
- international Lena, Lene, Leni
- Finnish Leena
- Estonian Lenna
- Upper Sorbian Lejna, Lenka , Leńka
- czech Lenka
- Hungarian Lenke
distribution
- Often in Scandinavia .
- The name Lena became popular in Germany in the mid-1970s. Since 1994 the name has been one of the ten most frequently given girl names of the respective year.
name day
- Lena: December 11th
- Magdalena: July 22nd
- Helena (e): May 26th
Well-known namesake
Lena
- Lena Christ (1881–1920), Bavarian writer
- Lena Dobler (* 1990), German musician
- Lena Dunham (* 1986), American actress
- Lena Ek (* 1958), Swedish politician
- Lena Eliasson (* 1981), Swedish orienteer
- Lena Endre (* 1955), Swedish actress
- Lena Gercke (* 1988), German model
- Lena Goeßling (* 1986), German soccer player
- Lena Hasselström , Swedish ski orienteer
- Lena Headey (born 1973), British actress
- Lena Hjelm-Wallén (* 1943), Swedish politician
- Lena Horne (1917-2010), American singer and actress
- Lena Kidd (1924–2003), British jazz musician
- Lena Kolarska-Bobińska (* 1947), Polish sociologist and politician
- Lena Ladig (* 1994), German actress
- Lena Lotzen (* 1993), German soccer player
- Lena Maurer (1904–1990), German politician
- Lena Meyer-Landrut (* 1991), German singer
- Lena Micko (* 1955), Swedish politician
- Lena Müller (* 1987), German rower
- Lena Noreses (* 1994), Namibian soccer player and sprinter
- Lena Nyman (1944–2011), Swedish actress
- Lena Olin (* 1955), Swedish actress
- Lena Petermann (* 1994), German soccer player
- Lena Philipsson (* 1966), Swedish pop singer
- Lena Sommestad (* 1957), Swedish politician
- Lena Valaitis (* 1943), German singer
- Lena Vandrey (1941–2018), German-French painter, sculptor and author
- Lena Wilson (1898–1939), American singer
- Lena Wisborg (* 1965), Swedish actress
- Lena Zavaroni (1963-1999), British singer
- Anna Lena Klenke (* 1995), German actress
Leni
- Leni Björklund (* 1944), Swedish social democratic politician
- Leni Fischer (* 1935), German educator and politician (CDU)
- Leni Hoffmann (* 1962), German professor of fine arts
- Leni Junker (1905–1997), German sprinter
- Leni Larsen Kaurin (* 1981), Norwegian soccer player
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902–2003), German film director, actress, photographer and dancer
- Leni Schmidt (1906–1985), German sprinter
- Leni Stern (* 1952), German jazz guitarist, singer and pianist
- Leni Statz (* 1929), German humorist and children's voice imitator
Lene
- Lene Voigt (1891–1962), German writer
- Lene Brøndum (* 1947), Danish actress
- Lene Espersen (* 1965), Danish economist and politician
- Lene Hau (* 1959), Danish physicist
- Lene Løseth (* 1986), Norwegian ski racer
- Lene Lovich (* 1949), American singer
- Lene Marlin (* 1980), Norwegian pop singer
- Lene Nystrøm (* 1973), Norwegian singer, musician and actress
- Lene Vågslid (* 1986), Norwegian politician
- Lene Westgaard-Halle (* 1979), Norwegian politician
Lenna
- Lenna Kuurmaa (* 1985), Estonian singer, actress and member of the group Vanilla Ninja
Fictional people and arts
- Lena Odenthal
- Lena Schneider from Turkish for beginners
- The protagonist of Leni ... has to go
- Lena 'Tracer' Oxton from the video game Overwatch