Lilyana
Lilyana was given to 237 girls in 2025, #1,050 among girls’ names; 9,872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,800 Americans named Lilyana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lilyana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lilyana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lilyana is “a female given name from the Slavic languages.”
Transliteration of Bulgarian Лиляна (Liljana), equivalent to English Lilian.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lilyana?
#1,050 among girls’ names, 2025
Lilyana fell from #573 in 2015 to #1,050 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.30 to 0.15 per 1,000.
650 babies in 2012, the peak
Lilyana peaked in 2012, when 650 girls were given it, #472 among girls’ names. The 237 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,050 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 298 | #895 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 296 | #903 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 300 | #915 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 302 | #898 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 305 | #879 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 360 | #772 | 0.21 |
| 2018 | 408 | #711 | 0.24 |
| 2017 | 447 | #662 | 0.26 |
| 2016 | 444 | #662 | 0.25 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 535 | #573 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 583 | #534 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 580 | #513 | 0.33 |
| 2012 | 650 | #472 | 0.37 |
| 2011 | 628 | #472 | 0.36 |
| 2010 | 625 | #483 | 0.35 |
| 2009 | 583 | #522 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 492 | #627 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 402 | #724 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 351 | #784 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 240 | #1,016 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 189 | #1,188 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,548 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,652 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,136 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,839 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,485 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,263 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,956 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,391 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,338 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,821 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,698 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,787 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,160 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,678 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,354 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lilyana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lilyana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lilyana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lilyana, and how old are they?
9,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,872 Americans ever recorded as Lilyana. The median Lilyana alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 6,562 people named Lilyana (6,558 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,153 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 125 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,060 |
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 Lilyana born?
The states with the most babies named Lilyana are California, Texas and Florida, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 39 | #783 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 31 | #934 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 15 | #1,035 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #746 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 10 | #893 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 10 | #932 | 0.8× |
| New York | 9 | #1,470 | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 7 | #701 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #835 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,372 | 0.6× |
Where Lilyana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lilyana is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1981 it was given 1.5 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 Lilyana 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 149,266 babies since 1880, Lilyana is the fourth most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 237 of their 5,409 babies (4.4%), 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 Lilyana
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 Lilyana and names like it
- Compare Lilyana and LilianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLilyana peaked in 2012.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lilyana since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Lilyana.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lilyana alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.