Svetlana
Svetlana is a girls' name of Russian origin meaning “light, pure, blessed.” Svetlana is a Slavic name meaning 'light' or 'pure,' coined by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky in his 1813 ballad.
how do you pronounce Svetlana?
svyet-LAH-nah
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what does Svetlana mean?
The name Svetlana means “light, pure, blessed.” It comes from the Russian language tradition.
Svetlana is a Slavic name meaning 'light' or 'pure,' coined by the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky in his 1813 ballad. Unlike most Russian names which have Greek, Latin, or Hebrew origins, Svetlana is one of the few purely Slavic-origin names to gain widespread use.
who are famous people named Svetlana?
- Svetlana Alliluyeva (daughter of Joseph Stalin)
- Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russian tennis player)
- Svetlana Alexievich (Belarusian Nobel laureate)
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