Lilliana
Feminine · “lily”
Lilliana is the double-l English spelling of Liliana, a name that has been at home in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian for generations, and it carries the lily with it. Said aloud it runs in four unhurried syllables — lil-ee-AH-nuh — and folds two names people already know, Lillian and Ana, into one.
How old is the name Lilliana?
Lilliana first appears in US birth records in 1955 — 70 years ago. The typical Lilliana is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 22,500 people named Lilliana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lilliana most popular?
Lilliana peaked in 2013, reaching #262 nationally. Today it ranks #445, 183 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lilium to Lilliana
The story of Lilliana
The lily gave Europe a whole family of names: Latin lilium became Italian and Spanish lilia and English lily, a flower carried through medieval and Renaissance Christian art as an emblem of purity. Lilian appeared in England as an affectionate form of Elizabeth, and by the time flower names came into fashion it was heard simply as the lily. Liliana is the Romance elaboration of that line, long established in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Romania, where it is an ordinary given name rather than an invention. Lilliana is the American spelling of it, written with the double l that English speakers already know from Lillian, and it is strongest in states where Spanish and English names have shared a street for a long time.
Meaning
lily
The root is Latin lilium, the lily. A second strand feeds the same cluster: Lilian began in medieval England as a pet form of Elizabeth before it was read as a flower name, and Liliana is usually treated as its Latinate elaboration.
How the name formed
- lilium
- Lilia
- Lilian
- Liliana
- Lilliana
Related forms: Liliana · Liliana · Liliana · Liliana · Liliane · Lillian
Pronouncing Lilliana
lil-ee-AH-nuh
Four syllables, stress on the third. Some American families say lil-ee-AN-uh, with the flatter middle vowel of Lillian; both are in ordinary use and neither needs correcting.
Nicknames for Lilliana
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
- 1955
- Most girls named
- 20131,230 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #262reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −10.1%695 in 2025, from 773
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.
Lilliana in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Liliana in Italian — spelling variant
- Liliana in Spanish — spelling variant
- Liliana in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Liliana in Romanian — spelling variant
- Liliane in French — related form
- Lillian in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Lillianas among us
people named Lilliana are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,313 born in 2025 was named Lilliana
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lilliana
- #445
- Lilliana on the 2025 chart
- #48
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lilliana went to 695 girls in 2025, but Liliana, Lilianna and Lilyana and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 10 spellings went to 4,784, which makes it the 48th most-given girls’ name of the year — 397 places above the chart.
and 2 rarer spellings.
About 1 girl in 336 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,313 for Lilliana 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 Alisa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lilliana's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alisa climbed just as high around 1969, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alisa's path sketches the road Lilliana is walking now.
Lilliana 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 Lilliana is headed
Lilliana should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Lilliana beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lilliana in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Every part of the spelling is already familiar in English — Lillian and Ana — so most people can read it aloud on first sight.
- Comes with several ready-made short forms, and Lily, Lilly and Ana each stand alone as complete names.
- The Liliana form is current in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian, so it travels without needing translation.
- A documented line back to Latin lilium, which puts the name in a family that has been in continuous use for centuries.
- Liliana, Lilianna, Lillianna and Lilliana all exist and all sound alike, so this exact spelling will need saying out loud fairly often — and the four-syllable length means a good deal of it gets written on forms.
- The exact spelling is uncommon, but the sound is not: a classroom may well hold a Lily, a Lila or a Liliana, so the name may be shared by ear even when it is not shared on paper.
- Its rise in the United States is recent, so the name currently belongs mostly to children and young people rather than to adults — something that simply changes as those children grow.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lillianas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 22,500 people named Lilliana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lilliana?
- Lilliana is one of 8 recorded spellings. Liliana is the more common one — 3,118 births in 2025 against 695 for Lilliana.
- How popular is the name Lilliana in 2025?
- Lilliana ranks #445 among US girl names in 2025, with 695 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lilliana?
- About 1 in every 2,313 US girls born in 2025 was named Lilliana — 695 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lilliana with classmates?
- Lilliana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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