Liana
Liana was given to 801 girls in 2025, #386 among girls’ names; 20,666 Americans have been recorded with it since 1929 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,200 Americans named Liana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Liana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Liana is “a female given name from Latin, derived from Juliana or Eliana”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Liana?
#386 among girls’ names, 2025
Liana rose from #528 in 2015 to #386 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.33 to 0.50 per 1,000.
801 babies in 2025, the peak
Liana peaked in 2025, when 801 girls were given it, #386 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 748 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 801 | #386 | 0.50 |
| 2024 | 748 | #418 | 0.46 |
| 2023 | 640 | #481 | 0.40 |
| 2022 | 699 | #451 | 0.43 |
| 2021 | 774 | #410 | 0.47 |
| 2020 | 669 | #462 | 0.41 |
| 2019 | 670 | #467 | 0.40 |
| 2018 | 646 | #487 | 0.38 |
| 2017 | 628 | #501 | 0.36 |
| 2016 | 684 | #466 | 0.39 |
Every recorded year (88)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 597 | #528 | 0.33 |
| 2014 | 523 | #581 | 0.29 |
| 2013 | 514 | #565 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 545 | #545 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 644 | #463 | 0.37 |
| 2010 | 554 | #526 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 520 | #585 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 513 | #599 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 428 | #685 | 0.22 |
| 2006 | 391 | #721 | 0.21 |
| 2005 | 383 | #714 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 370 | #722 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 350 | #731 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 313 | #771 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 253 | #898 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 281 | #810 | 0.15 |
| 1999 | 249 | #864 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 270 | #793 | 0.15 |
| 1997 | 249 | #832 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 206 | #940 | 0.12 |
| 1995 | 249 | #798 | 0.14 |
| 1994 | 258 | #793 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 232 | #845 | 0.13 |
| 1992 | 283 | #746 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 244 | #832 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 251 | #800 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 266 | #737 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 203 | #870 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 183 | #910 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 186 | #887 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 145 | #1,037 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 158 | #931 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 177 | #864 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 145 | #1,017 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 127 | #1,098 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 147 | #999 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 159 | #927 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 154 | #923 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 184 | #816 | 0.12 |
| 1976 | 94 | #1,211 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,133 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,195 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,322 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 85 | #1,240 | 0.06 |
| 1971 | 95 | #1,201 | 0.06 |
| 1970 | 85 | #1,281 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 106 | #1,072 | 0.06 |
| 1968 | 106 | #1,010 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 68 | #1,329 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 54 | #1,522 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,610 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,619 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 64 | #1,399 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,683 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 58 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,908 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,708 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,863 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 32 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,553 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 28 | #2,046 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 45 | #1,513 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,600 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 41 | #1,515 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,938 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 23 | #2,036 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,837 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,405 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 19 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,848 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,167 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,765 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,588 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,352 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 88 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liana, and how old are they?
20,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 20,666 Americans ever recorded as Liana. The median Liana alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 17,796 people named Liana (17,767 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,150 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 36 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 563 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,550 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,540 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Liana born?
The states with the most babies named Liana are California, New York and Texas, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 138 | #240 | 1.4× |
| New York | 84 | #200 | 2.0× |
| Texas | 77 | #438 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 71 | #271 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 40 | #209 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 31 | #340 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #377 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 27 | #268 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 23 | #381 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 22 | #368 | 0.7× |
Where Liana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liana is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1929 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Liana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 149,207 babies since 1880, Liana is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 801 of their 5,362 babies (15%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Liana
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Liana and names like it
- Compare Liana and LilianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLiana peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liana since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Liana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Liana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.