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    The first name Svitlana

    A girl’s name meaning “light”.

    3 syllables Female

    Meaning and origin

    Svitlana means “light”.

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

    More names that mean light.

    From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    Svitlana in other languages

    Equivalent forms of the name, from Wiktionary

    Սվետլանա
    Svetlana
    Armenian
    Светла́на
    Svetlána
    Bulgarian
    Světlana
    Czech
    სვეტლანა
    sveṭlana
    Georgian
    Swetlana
    German
    Σβετλάνα
    Svetlána
    Greek
    Świetlana
    Polish, also Swietłana
    Светла́на
    Svetlána
    Russian
    Svetlana
    Slovak
    Svetlana
    Slovene
    Світлана
    Svitlana
    Ukrainian

    Spelled Svitlana in Swedish too.

    Famous people named Svitlana

    1 on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Svetlana Jitomirskaya
      American mathematician, born 1966

    Questions

    What does the name Svitlana mean?
    Svitlana means “light”.