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Svetlana

#6,519 in 2025Girls' name

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Svetlana has been given to 928 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #6,519 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Svetlana, 2025

1 in 184,000

Svetlana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Svetlana: meaning, origin, and history

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What Svetlana means

Svetlana means “light”, associated with svet.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Russian Светла́на (Svetlána), from свет (svet, “light”). Made up by Alexander Vostokov in 1802, later borrowed into English and other languages.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Svetlana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Svetlana is used in English, Azerbaijani, Latvian and Slovak.

Svetlana comes through Russian Светла́на.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Светла́на.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Svetlana is pronounced /ˈsvɛtɫana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 928 girls were recorded with the name Svetlana between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 51 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,327 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,862 in 2020 to #6,519 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,280 in 2015 to #6,519 in 2025.

How common is Svetlana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,519
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Svetlana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Svetlana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Svetlanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Svetlana was born before 2007 — so the typical Svetlana is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
69.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
928
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2000s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (292).

Is Svetlana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−932
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,657
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,239
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.69×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 2007 (51)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,327
2007

Where Svetlana is used

Across 1910–2025, Svetlana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 314,080 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Svetlana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Svetlana around the world

Where Svetlana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1934–2025
    #2,033
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1994
    #462
    in 1994
  • Canada
    1995–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1954–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Svetlana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,519
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,657
Best rank ever
#3,327
2007
Peak year
2007
51 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
928
Count in 2025
18

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Sibling names for Svetlana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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