Yelena is the Russian form of Helen, from the Greek for the bright or shining one — a torch of a name. It has a graceful, flowing sound and centuries of elegance behind it.
Luminous and refined, Yelena is Helen with a Russian glow.
Yelena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yelena reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.