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In the Italian origin, Lena means "Butterfly".
An Afghan/Persian female name that means “beauty” and “fiery light”.
Can also be an Arabic name [LEE-na] meaning "young palm tree" literally and "soft and delicate" figuratively.
Pronounced leen-ah it's a diminutive of the English Shailena (variant of Shailene and Shaelyn).
My mom sometimes calls me Lena, pronounced LAY-na, because my full first name is Marlena. I'm known to everyone as Marley, though.
Lena is also short form of Mahulena.
"Lena" could be a short form of "Marlena", "Milena", "Miglena", "Elena", "Alena", "Galena".
I've been told that the name Lena originated from Hebrew, and means "illustrious".
Can mean "Temptress" or "Illustrious".
Lena is also a nickname for Caroline/Carolina, especially in German. Pronounced either Lay-nuh or Lee-nuh.

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