Eliyana
Feminine · “my God has answered”
Eliyana is 'my God has answered' in Hebrew — El and anah — a modern Israeli formation from ordinary words.
How old is the name Eliyana?
Eliyana first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Eliyana is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Eliyana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Eliyana most popular?
Eliyana peaked in 2024, reaching #2265 nationally. Today it ranks #2542, 277 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Eli anah to Eliyana
The story of Eliyana
Modern Israeli naming built freely on El, 'God', and ordinary verbs — Eliana is 'my God has answered', Elior 'my God is light', Elisheva 'my God is an oath'. Eliyana is a modern spelling and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
my God has answered
From the Hebrew Eliana — Eli, 'my God', and anah, 'to answer'. It is a modern Israeli formation rather than a biblical name, built from ordinary Hebrew. The Eliyana spelling is a variant. The elements are transparent.
How the name formed
- Eli anah
- Eliana
- Eliyana
Related forms: אליענה · Eliana · Eliana
Pronouncing Eliyana
el-ee-YAH-nah
Four syllables, stress on the third. Hebrew stresses the last.
Nicknames for Eliyana
Moderate
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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 202482 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2265reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −15.9%69 in 2025, from 82
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.
Eliyana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- אליענה in Hebrew — related form
- Eliana in English — spelling variant
- Eliana in Spanish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Eliyanas among us
people named Eliyana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 23,294 born in 2025 was named Eliyana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Eliyana
- #2542
- Eliyana on the 2025 chart
- #4
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Eliyana went to 69 girls in 2025, but Eliana, Elliana and Elianna 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 — 2,538 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 23,294 for Eliyana 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 Jannelle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Eliyana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jannelle climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jannelle's path sketches the road Eliyana is walking now.
Eliyana sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Eliyana is headed
Eliyana 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.
Eliyana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Eliyana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The my-God-has-answered meaning is transparent and warm.
- Eli and Yana are two short forms, both with real records.
- Four syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- Eliana is the standard spelling.
- It is a twentieth-century formation rather than a biblical name.
- Four syllables make it long for everyday use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Eliyanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Eliyana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Eliyana?
- Eliyana is one of 8 recorded spellings. Eliana is the more common one — 8,191 births in 2025 against 69 for Eliyana.
- How popular is the name Eliyana in 2025?
- Eliyana ranks #2542 among US girl names in 2025, with 69 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Eliyana?
- About 1 in every 23,294 US girls born in 2025 was named Eliyana — 69 in all.
- Will my child share the name Eliyana with classmates?
- Eliyana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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