"Variant of Yelena"
The name Alyona is commonly a female name from the "Russian" origin.
Alyona is a Russian name, written Алёна in Cyrillic, and is a form of Yelena, the Russian counterpart of Elena. Both go back to the Greek name Helene. In Russian usage Alyona serves as the familiar or everyday form of Yelena rather than a separate name with its own root, and the letter ё carries the stress, giving the pronunciation commonly rendered in English as ah-LYO-nah.
Yelena means "Lily blossom, Shining light. A form of Helena.".
The pronunciation of Alyona is ah-LYOH-nuh.
