In 2025, 801 US girls were named Liana, making it the 386th most common girls’ name of the year, up 32 places from #418 in 2024. That is 53 more than the 748 girls named Liana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #386, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 801. For comparison, it was #528 in 2015 and #1,939 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Liana in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 6 babies. In all, 20,666 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,005 babies named Liana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,959 US girls were named Liana; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 801. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,007 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Liana ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #194 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Juliana (67,797 babies since 1880), Lana (57,449 babies since 1880), Lina (19,494 babies since 1880) and Giuliana (12,081 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Liani, Linnae and Lianah are summarised on this page.
Meaning
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English, Italian and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.