Liani
Liani was given to 35 girls in 2025, #4,129 among girls’ names; 907 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liani?
#4,129 among girls’ names, 2025
Liani rose from #4,932 in 2015 to #4,129 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.7 to 21.8 per million.
57 babies in 2007, the peak
Liani peaked in 2007, when 57 girls were given it, #3,080 among girls’ names. The 35 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,129 | 21.8 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,362 | 29.0 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,681 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,511 | 27.4 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,529 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,969 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,225 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,202 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,757 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,222 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,932 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,887 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,596 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,342 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,972 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,084 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,062 | 20.7 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,899 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,080 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,202 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,076 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,953 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,425 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,096 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,788 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,346 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,658 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,765 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,816 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,242 | 3.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,975 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,043 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liani, and how old are they?
An estimated 900 Americans named Liani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 678 people named Liani (668 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 662 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,783 babies since 1880, Liani is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 35 of their 1,849 babies (1.9%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Liani
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 Liani and names like it
- Compare Liani and LianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Liani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Liani alive today were born 2013-2025.
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