Eliana
Feminine
Eliana is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 76,104 girls against 42 boys since 1880.
Eliana arrives in English along two separate roads: the Hebrew Eliana, and the Latin Aeliana that Italian, Spanish and Portuguese have carried for centuries. In the mouth it is four open syllables with the stress in the middle, all vowels and one soft L — a shape that survives being said in several languages without changing much. It has been familiar in Latin America and in Israel far longer than it has been on American school lists.
How old is the name Eliana?
Eliana first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Eliana is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 75,500 people named Eliana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eliana most popular?
Eliana peaked in 2025, reaching #10 nationally. Today it ranks #10, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Where it comes from
From Aelius to Eliana
The story of Eliana
The Hebrew name is built from ordinary religious language — El for God, plus the verb for answering a prayer — and belongs to the same family of names as Eliezer and Elisheva. The Latin Aeliana comes from Aelius, a well-attested Roman family name, and passed through the Romance languages as Eliana in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and Éliane in French. Brazilian and Spanish-speaking families have used it steadily for generations, and modern Hebrew revived its own version independently. In the United States the two streams simply converged on one spelling, which is why the name is strongest in states with large Latino and Jewish populations.
Meaningscholars disagree
Either "my God has answered me" (Hebrew) or a feminine form of the Roman family name Aelius
Two genuine sources meet at this spelling. The Hebrew אֱלִיאָנָה combines El, "God," with the root for "answered" — "my God has answered me." Separately, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Eliana descends from Latin Aeliana, the feminine of Aelianus, from the Roman gens name Aelius, whose own meaning was never established. Neither reading is a mistake; which one applies depends on which family line a given Eliana comes down.
How the name formed
- Aelius
- Aeliana
- Éliane
- Eliana
Related forms: אֱלִיאָנָה (Eliana) · Eliana · Eliana · Eliana · Éliane · Elianna
Pronouncing Eliana
el-ee-AH-nuh
The common American pronunciation stresses the third syllable with an open ah. Some families say eh-lee-AN-uh, rhyming the ending with Anna, and Hebrew speakers place more weight on the final syllable. All are correct for their tradition, so expect to state your preference occasionally.
Nicknames for Eliana
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1961
- Most girls named
- 20258,191 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #10reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +27.1%8,191 in 2025, from 6,447
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Eliana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- אֱלִיאָנָה (Eliana) in Hebrew — transliteration
- Eliana in Italian — same name
- Eliana in Spanish — same name
- Eliana in Portuguese — same name
- Éliane in French — related form
- Elianna in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York. International figures from Statistics Canada. Sources
Elianas among us
people named Eliana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 196 born in 2025 was named Eliana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eliana
- #10
- Eliana on the 2025 chart
- #4
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eliana went to 8,191 girls in 2025, but Elliana, Elianna and Ellianna and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 21 spellings went to 13,006, which makes it the 4th most-given girls’ name of the year — 6 places above the chart.
and 13 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 124 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 196 for Eliana itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Laura test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eliana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Laura climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Laura's path sketches the road Eliana is walking now.
Eliana is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eliana is headed
Eliana looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 23% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Eliana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eliana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Reads and pronounces the same in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, which matters in a multilingual family.
- Comes with short forms already in circulation — Ellie, Ella, Lia — none of which need explaining.
- Phonetic in English: people can usually spell it after hearing it once.
- Charts in Canada as well as the US, so it travels without becoming an unfamiliar name.
- Formal enough on a document while shortening easily in conversation.
- Elianna, with two n's, competes closely with this spelling, so you will likely be asked which one you mean for the rest of her life.
- The wave is very recent and still rising, so the name currently belongs strongly to young children rather than to all ages.
- Ellie and Ella are the default nicknames for a long list of popular names right now — she may share them with several classmates.
- The two pronunciations, ending in -AH-nuh or -AN-uh, both have real backing; worth deciding early which one your family uses.
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Frequently asked
- How many Elianas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 75,500 people named Eliana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eliana?
- Eliana is the most-used spelling in US records — 8,191 of the 13,006 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Elliana, Elianna, Ellianna, Elyana, Eliyanah, Elyanna and Elianah.
- How popular is the name Eliana in 2025?
- Eliana ranks #10 among US girl names in 2025, with 8,191 babies given the name.
- How common is the name Eliana?
- About 1 in every 196 US girls born in 2025 was named Eliana — 8,191 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eliana with classmates?
- Roughly 1 in 8 classrooms will have a child named Eliana.
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