About the name Alena
Alena belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Alena first appears in Social Security records in 1891. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #596 in 2015, and in 2024 375 babies received the name — 15,613 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.