# Svitlana (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/svitlana/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “light” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Transliteration of Ukrainian Світла́на (Svitlána), from свет (svet, “light”). Made up by Alexander Vostokov in 1802, later borrowed into English and other languages.

## What it means

Svitlana is grouped under light.

## In other languages

- Armenian: Սվետլանա
- Bulgarian: Светла́на
- Czech: Světlana
- Georgian: სვეტლანა
- German: Swetlana
- Greek: Σβετλάνα
- Polish: Świetlana, Swietłana
- Russian: Светла́на
- Slovak: Svetlana
- Slovene: Svetlana
- Swedish: Svitlana
- Ukrainian: Світлана

## People named Svitlana

- Svetlana Jitomirskaya, American mathematician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.