Plamena
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- pla-MEH-na
- Origin
- Slavic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Plamena is a girls' name of Slavic origin, meaning “flame”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Plamena mean?
Slavic: Bulgarian, feminine of Plamen
“flame”
Bulgarian feminine of Plamen, from the Slavic word for 'flame'.
Is Plamena a girl's or a boy's name?
Plamena is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Plamena in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Plamena, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 5 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Plamena in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
Names like Plamena
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeva, Alora, Amara, Rosa, Aria, Aurora, Athena, Mila, Dua, Syeda, Pippa, Eliana
More Slavic names
Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Lilyana, Yuri, Milah
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Plamena: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/plamena, updated 20 October 2026.