In 2025, 9 US girls were named Liane, making it the 10,556th most common girls’ name of the year, up 186 places from #10,742 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 9 girls named Liane in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #942, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 124. For comparison, it was #10,560 in 2015 and #1,356 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Liane in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 6 babies. In all, 3,879 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 873 babies named Liane.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 76 US girls were named Liane; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lane (52,177 babies since 1880), Liana (20,666 babies since 1880), Laine (6,113 babies since 1880) and Juliane (2,162 babies since 1880).
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.