Svetlana Forename
79th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 4,430,784 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Russia
Highest density in:
Russia
Svetlana Forename User-submission:
Svetlana was introduced by Russian philologist and poet Alexander Vostokov in 1802 and popularized by another poet Vasily Zhukovsky in 1813. It's derived from the word svet, which means 'light'. Because of its structural similarity to a lot of established Russian female names and clear and beautiful meaning, it became popular.
Read More About This ForenameSvetlana Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 100% | 2,767,842 | 1:52 | 13 |
| Ukraine | 100% | 864,578 | 1:53 | 17 |
| Belarus | 100% | 176,118 | 1:54 | 13 |
| Kazakhstan | 99% | 168,178 | 1:106 | 10 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 74,158 | 1:415 | 77 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 48,262 | 1:174 | 28 |
| Moldova | 100% | 43,991 | 1:81 | 18 |
| Serbia | 100% | 38,096 | 1:188 | 42 |
| Turkmenistan | 99% | 36,784 | 1:149 | 32 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 100% | 21,219 | 1:282 | 21 |
| United States | 100% | 19,071 | 1:19,010 | 1,593 |
| Latvia | 100% | 15,990 | 1:126 | 20 |
| Israel | 100% | 15,361 | 1:547 | 98 |
| Armenia | 100% | 14,007 | 1:208 | 37 |
| Germany | 100% | 13,516 | 1:7,153 | 599 |
| Bulgaria | 100% | 13,451 | 1:520 | 116 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 11,755 | 1:820 | 198 |
| Estonia | 100% | 9,661 | 1:136 | 4 |
| Georgia | 100% | 8,704 | 1:430 | 98 |
| Transnistria | 99% | 8,168 | 1:58 | 14 |
| Lithuania | 98% | 8,066 | 1:366 | 108 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 4,012 | 1:521 | 101 |
| Canada | 100% | 3,548 | 1:9,339 | 1,120 |
| Poland | 100% | 3,299 | 1:11,527 | 504 |
| Spain | 100% | 3,101 | 1:15,005 | 986 |
| Egypt | 100% | 2,885 | 1:31,855 | 2,100 |
| Czechia | 100% | 2,449 | 1:4,351 | 318 |
| Greece | 100% | 2,379 | 1:4,596 | 365 |
| England | 100% | 2,260 | 1:24,603 | 1,452 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1,931 | 1:329 | 76 |
| Thailand | 100% | 1,837 | 1:38,141 | 4,461 |
| Finland | 100% | 1,682 | 1:3,260 | 474 |
| Austria | 100% | 1,505 | 1:5,657 | 480 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 1,494 | 1:2,359 | 550 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,358 | 1:12,446 | 1,393 |
| Sweden | 100% | 1,344 | 1:7,335 | 715 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 1,315 | 1:4,038 | 292 |
| France | 100% | 1,280 | 1:51,930 | 1,551 |
| Croatia | 100% | 1,092 | 1:3,862 | 490 |
| Angola | - | 1,080 | 1:24,969 | 1,864 |
| Italy | 100% | 959 | 1:63,673 | 1,502 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 944 | 1:258 | 62 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 796 | 1:10,318 | 1,018 |
| Kosovo | - | 782 | 1:2,380 | 537 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 763 | 1:3,222 | 483 |
| Portugal | - | 756 | 1:13,771 | 755 |
| Morocco | - | 573 | 1:59,945 | 2,327 |
| Norway | 100% | 567 | 1:9,052 | 831 |
| Gabon | - | 561 | 1:3,357 | 747 |
| Belgium | 100% | 518 | 1:22,182 | 1,615 |
| Ireland | 100% | 517 | 1:8,982 | 683 |
| Romania | 100% | 443 | 1:45,264 | 2,662 |
| Turkey | 100% | 415 | 1:187,474 | 4,333 |
| Denmark | - | 409 | 1:13,813 | 994 |
| Australia | - | 401 | 1:34,059 | 1,897 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 350 | 1:88,036 | 9,509 |
| Cyprus | - | 319 | 1:2,731 | 386 |
| Malta | - | 284 | 1:1,512 | 313 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 235 | 1:44,388 | 3,115 |
| Brazil | 100% | 233 | 1:919,468 | 24,783 |
| Ghana | - | 225 | 1:119,939 | 4,817 |
| New Zealand | - | 206 | 1:22,020 | 1,677 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 182 | 1:30,921 | 1,903 |
| India | 100% | 167 | 1:7,274,718 | 244,413 |
| Jordan | 100% | 163 | 1:54,152 | 1,601 |
| Philippines | 100% | 147 | 1:721,153 | 21,649 |
| Japan | - | 144 | 1:888,792 | 14,315 |
| South Africa | 100% | 134 | 1:406,960 | 20,792 |
| Hungary | 100% | 117 | 1:83,690 | 673 |
| Scotland | 100% | 112 | 1:47,771 | 1,536 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 107 | 1:500 | 135 |
| Ecuador | - | 103 | 1:172,106 | 3,201 |
| Malaysia | 92% | 100 | 1:304,499 | 15,501 |
| Mexico | 100% | 97 | 1:1,279,839 | 9,279 |
| Kuwait | - | 95 | 1:39,845 | 3,619 |
| Bahrain | - | 74 | 1:18,225 | 2,605 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 71 | 1:7,944 | 711 |
| China | - | 65 | 1:21,016,243 | 60,436 |
| Chile | 100% | 50 | 1:352,144 | 4,999 |
| Qatar | 100% | 49 | 1:48,359 | 6,334 |
| South Korea | - | 47 | 1:117,966 | 5,650 |
| Peru | 100% | 44 | 1:722,533 | 11,133 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 41 | 1:736,632 | 17,458 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 37 | 1:193,297 | 12,866 |
| Argentina | 100% | 36 | 1:1,188,146 | 5,692 |
| Sudan | - | 36 | 1:1,050,194 | 2,907 |
| Iran | - | 30 | 1:2,616,562 | 14,138 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 30 | 1:200,611 | 5,115 |
| Indonesia | - | 26 | 1:9,921,680 | 317,188 |
| Mongolia | - | 25 | 1:117,393 | 7,151 |
| Iraq | 100% | 24 | 1:1,459,077 | 10,051 |
| Panama | 100% | 24 | 1:162,773 | 6,758 |
| Singapore | 100% | 22 | 1:285,775 | 9,352 |
| Monaco | - | 20 | 1:1,923 | 383 |
| Wales | 100% | 17 | 1:182,018 | 3,415 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 15 | 1:317,863 | 5,868 |
| Palestine | 100% | 15 | 1:303,337 | 2,721 |
| Tunisia | - | 14 | 1:48,350 | 2,519 |
| Hong Kong | - | 10 | 1:775,272 | 5,181 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Vanuatu | - | 9 | 1:29,088 | 709 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 7 | 1:263,307 | 1,965 |
| Congo | 100% | 7 | 1:715,601 | 13,459 |
| Jamaica | - | 7 | 1:411,890 | 11,384 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 6 | 1:2,712,222 | 28,071 |
| Colombia | - | 6 | 1:7,963,154 | 36,949 |
| Honduras | - | 6 | 1:1,469,578 | 13,832 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 6 | 1:9,111 | 1,173 |
| Oman | - | 6 | 1:684,778 | 5,486 |
| Albania | 100% | 5 | 1:609,314 | 20,025 |
| Cuba | - | 5 | 1:2,301,310 | 5,387 |
| Kenya | - | 5 | 1:9,261,422 | 35,582 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 5 | 1:21,949 | 2,239 |
| Vietnam | - | 5 | 1:18,524,623 | 4,897 |
| Algeria | - | 4 | 1:9,544,180 | 14,095 |
| Bangladesh | - | 4 | 1:39,865,342 | 24,379 |
| Mali | - | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 4 | 1:324,446 | 5,754 |
| Nigeria | - | 4 | 1:44,391,090 | 271,718 |
| Pakistan | - | 4 | 1:48,589,420 | 158,924 |
| Senegal | - | 4 | 1:3,645,339 | 17,621 |
| Suriname | - | 4 | 1:138,203 | 2,927 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | - | 4 | 1:340,355 | 15,394 |
| Afghanistan | - | 3 | 1:10,874,505 | 40,253 |
| El Salvador | - | 3 | 1:2,113,929 | 9,538 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 3 | 1:16,376 | 1,521 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 3 | 1:12,619 | 697 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 3 | 1:106,044 | 2,485 |
| Saint Lucia | - | 3 | 1:59,272 | 4,116 |
| Syria | - | 3 | 1:6,435,358 | 7,086 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 3 | 1:17,596,106 | 69,562 |
| Yemen | - | 3 | 1:8,765,584 | 9,038 |
| Andorra | - | 2 | 1:41,444 | 944 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 2 | 1:9,189,734 | 69,235 |
| Cook Islands | - | 2 | 1:9,076 | 1,075 |
| Guyana | - | 2 | 1:381,631 | 18,312 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Macau | - | 2 | 1:304,104 | 1,640 |
| Namibia | - | 2 | 1:1,202,090 | 12,702 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 2 | 1:1,775,150 | 6,781 |
| Taiwan | - | 2 | 1:11,884,841 | 132,786 |
| Uruguay | - | 2 | 1:1,713,818 | 10,870 |
| Zimbabwe | - | 2 | 1:7,711,908 | 84,647 |
| American Samoa | - | 1 | 1:55,845 | 3,376 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 1 | 1:99,395 | 3,544 |
| Bahamas | - | 1 | 1:399,370 | 4,606 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Belize | - | 1 | 1:354,309 | 7,663 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Bermuda | - | 1 | 1:64,826 | 2,481 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Botswana | - | 1 | 1:2,184,449 | 21,741 |
| Cameroon | - | 1 | 1:21,610,503 | 119,836 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| DR Congo | - | 1 | 1:73,827,605 | 146,761 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gibraltar | - | 1 | 1:34,138 | 985 |
| Grenada | - | 1 | 1:108,125 | 4,208 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 1 | 1:1,728,218 | 422 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Liberia | - | 1 | 1:4,412,061 | 36,340 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Myanmar | - | 1 | 1:51,948,273 | 3,226 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Seychelles | - | 1 | 1:92,670 | 1,891 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 1 | 1:20,799,087 | 16,824 |
The alternate forms: Světlana (1,811) & Svetlaña (1) are calculated separately.
Svetlana (409) may also be a surname.
Svetlana Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
Svetlana was introduced by Russian philologist and poet Alexander Vostokov in 1802 and popularized by another poet Vasily Zhukovsky in 1813. It's derived from the word svet, which means 'light'. Because of its structural similarity to a lot of established Russian female names and clear and beautiful meaning, it became popular. The name is similar in meaning to Greek name Fotina, Italian Lucia and English Clare (Clara).
It may be shortened to Sveta, Svetka or Svetochka.
- svethsSvetlana Forename Popularity
Svetlana Demographics
Svetlana Religious Adherence
in Russia
Sample size: 75,046 (2016)
Religious Adherence
in Russia
Phonetically Similar Names
Svetlana Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Svetlana in the Russian language | ||
| Светлана | svetlana | - |
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