Liane
Liane was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,552 among girls’ names; 3,879 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,320 Americans named Liane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 55 years old and half are between 41 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Liane mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Liane is “a female given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Liane?
#10,552 among girls’ names, 2025
Liane rose from #10,555 in 2015 to #10,552 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born held at 5.6 per million.
124 babies in 1959, the peak
Liane peaked in 1959, when 124 girls were given it, #941 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,552 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,737 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,307 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,151 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,763 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,908 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,830 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,738 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,555 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,596 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #10,687 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,120 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,860 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,827 | 5.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,776 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,318 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,049 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,604 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,280 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,282 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,657 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,721 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,345 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,131 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,440 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,351 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,421 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,540 | 17.6 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,398 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,128 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,750 | 23.9 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,600 | 25.1 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,415 | 26.9 |
| 1989 | 56 | #2,178 | 30.4 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,060 | 32.0 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,035 | 31.6 |
| 1986 | 77 | #1,566 | 44.9 |
| 1985 | 57 | #1,936 | 33.1 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,913 | 32.7 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,630 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,936 | 32.5 |
| 1981 | 67 | #1,708 | 40.2 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,923 | 33.7 |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,416 | 54.2 |
| 1978 | 44 | #2,145 | 28.7 |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,617 | 43.0 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,194 | 26.6 |
| 1975 | 71 | #1,454 | 48.7 |
| 1974 | 72 | #1,422 | 49.1 |
| 1973 | 63 | #1,502 | 43.2 |
| 1972 | 89 | #1,211 | 58.5 |
| 1971 | 92 | #1,225 | 55.3 |
| 1970 | 123 | #1,013 | 70.4 |
| 1969 | 122 | #973 | 72.3 |
| 1968 | 102 | #1,030 | 62.2 |
| 1967 | 62 | #1,410 | 37.6 |
| 1966 | 73 | #1,268 | 43.1 |
| 1965 | 69 | #1,315 | 39.1 |
| 1964 | 72 | #1,326 | 38.0 |
| 1963 | 87 | #1,176 | 45.1 |
| 1962 | 80 | #1,231 | 40.7 |
| 1961 | 109 | #1,053 | 54.0 |
| 1960 | 97 | #1,095 | 48.0 |
| 1959 | 124 | #941 | 61.3 |
| 1958 | 89 | #1,126 | 44.2 |
| 1957 | 70 | #1,259 | 34.2 |
| 1956 | 85 | #1,123 | 42.3 |
| 1955 | 71 | #1,191 | 36.3 |
| 1954 | 62 | #1,263 | 31.9 |
| 1953 | 78 | #1,100 | 41.5 |
| 1952 | 56 | #1,271 | 30.2 |
| 1951 | 64 | #1,172 | 35.5 |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,355 | 26.9 |
| 1949 | 35 | #1,579 | 20.5 |
| 1948 | 37 | #1,532 | 21.8 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,496 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,438 | 10.2 |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,913 | 15.3 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,706 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,309 | 11.5 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,894 | 15.5 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,927 | 15.7 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,663 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,766 | 18.2 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,512 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,387 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,952 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,505 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,139 | 14.4 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,481 | 11.9 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,431 | 12.2 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,714 | 19.7 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,878 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,353 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,484 | 5.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,598 | 5.1 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,363 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,403 | 4.2 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,953 | 18.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liane has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liane, and how old are they?
3,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 3,879 Americans ever recorded as Liane. The median Liane alive today is 55 years old; half are between 41 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 4,089 people named Liane (4,075 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,411 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 85 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,040 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 751 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 196 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 105 |
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 Liane born?
The states with the most babies named Liane are California, New York and Hawaii, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 495 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 286 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Hawaii | 267 | not ranked | 17.1× |
| Illinois | 146 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 118 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 72 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 40 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Liane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liane is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 17.1 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 Liane 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 134,554 babies since 1880, Liane is the seventh most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,737 babies (<1%), again the seventh 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 Liane
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 Liane and names like it
- Compare Liane and LynneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLiane peaked in 1959.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liane since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Liane: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Liane.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Liane alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.