Ilianna
Feminine · “of Troy”
Ilianna sits between two real names — Iliana, from the Greek Ilion, which is Troy, and Eliana, a Hebrew compound about God answering.
How old is the name Ilianna?
Ilianna first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Ilianna alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 1,200 people named Ilianna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ilianna most popular?
Ilianna peaked in 2010, reaching #2841 nationally. Today it ranks #3975, 1,134 places below that high. See the whole 2010 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Ilianna
Ours, offered as ours. Ilion is Troy's other name — the city has two, which is why Homer's poem is the Iliad and not the Troiad — and it comes from Ilus, the legendary founder. Eliana, meanwhile, is a Hebrew sentence: God has answered. A city that was besieged for ten years and a statement that a prayer was heard, meeting at the same five syllables. Neither is proven for this spelling and both are worth knowing.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Troy; or God has answered
Greek Ilion is the other name of Troy and gives the Iliad. Hebrew Eliana joins el, God, to a verb meaning to answer. The modern spelling sits between them and neither is documented for it.
Pronouncing Ilianna
ih-lee-AH-nah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Some families say ee-lee-AH-nah.
Nicknames for Ilianna
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
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 201061 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2841reached in 2010
- Change vs 2024
- +2.9%36 in 2025, from 35
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.
Ilianna in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Iliana in Spanish — spelling variant
- Eliana in Hebrew — related form
- Ilion in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Iliannas among us
people named Ilianna are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 44,646 born in 2025 was named Ilianna
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Ilianna
- #3975
- Ilianna on the 2025 chart
- #432
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Ilianna went to 36 girls in 2025, but Iliana, Ilyana and Illiana and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 10 spellings went to 654, which makes it the 432nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,543 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 2,458 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 44,646 for Ilianna 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 Mellanie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ilianna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Mellanie climbed just as high around 1955, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Mellanie's path sketches the road Ilianna is walking now.
Ilianna 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 Ilianna is headed
Ilianna should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Ilianna beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ilianna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Anna and Lia are both complete names in their own right.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- Two good ancestors, Greek and Hebrew, stand nearby.
- Iliana, Eliana and Ilianna are all in use and get confused.
- Eight letters and four syllables is a great deal for early handwriting.
- The two possible sources mean entirely different things.
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Frequently asked
- How many Iliannas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Ilianna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Ilianna?
- Ilianna is one of 8 recorded spellings. Iliana is the more common one — 380 births in 2025 against 36 for Ilianna.
- How popular is the name Ilianna in 2025?
- Ilianna ranks #3975 among US girl names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ilianna?
- About 1 in every 44,646 US girls born in 2025 was named Ilianna — 36 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ilianna with classmates?
- Ilianna will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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