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Diccionario de Nombres de Personas by Jose Albaiges Olivart lists Elano as another Spanish form of Helanio/Helena. Usually names ending in -o in that dictionary are simply assumed to have feminine forms ending in -a even when those are not directly listed, so I guess Elana must be considered another Spanish form of Helen.

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Smadar Shir Sidi's The Complete Book of Hebrew Baby Names does not list Elana as a form of Ilana, but I can certainly see how parents in English speaking countries would be tempted to respell Ilana as Elana, since the pronunciation of the name is "ee-LAH-nah".