Liann — girls' name
503 babies named Liann in U.S. Social Security records since 1951, with the highest year being 1994. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Liann was born in this single decade.
18 babies were named Liann in 1994 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Liann
The Social Security Administration has registered 503 babies named Liann between 1951 and 2017, spanning 67 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Liann currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 18 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Liann performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 108 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Liann shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Liann in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Liann in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 503 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Liann at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Liann popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1951
- Peak year (1994)
- 18
- Annual births at peak — across 67 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
503 total births across 67 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 18 births in a single year.
Liann by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 108 births that decade — 21% of Liann's all-time total
Liann decade highlights
- Peak decade 108 births
- Runner-up 85 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Liann's strongest decade
108 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Liann by state
Where Liann concentrates geographically — total births since 1951
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 6 | 1.2% |
6 of 503 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 1.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 1.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1951–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.