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Sviatlana Sviatlana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ svyaht-LAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Light (Belarusian + Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya opposition leader)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Belarusian)

A name that means "light (belarusian + sviatlana tsikhanouskaya opposition leader)".

Sviatlana is from the Belarusian Святлана (Sviatlana) — Belarusian rendition of Svetlana — from Slavic svet (light, world, sacred). Sviatlana is one of the Belarusian feminine names — central to traditional Belarusian Orthodox + Indigenous Slavic heritage.

Light (Belarusian + Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya opposition leader).

The name in its native script.

Святлана
Transliteration
Sviatlana
Pronunciation
/ svjɑːtˈlɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sviatlana stands.

Sviatlana 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.

Sviatlanas before her.

Real people
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Belarusian opposition leader + 2020 election candidate + Sakharov Prize 2020 + Nobel Peace Prize nominee 2022.
born 1982
In fiction
Sviatlana
Belarusian light.

Names connected to Sviatlana.

The number behind Sviatlana.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sviatlana reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.