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Iliyana

#12,398 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Iliya

Iliyana has been given to 143 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #12,398 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Iliyana, 2025

1 in 474,000

Iliyana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iliyana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Iliya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iliyana means

Iliyana is a feminine form of Iliya.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Iliyana is used in Bulgarian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Iliya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 143 girls were recorded with the name Iliyana between 2005 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2009; its best national rank was #8,684 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Iliyana?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,398
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iliyana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iliyana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iliyanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iliyana was born before 2014 — so the typical Iliyana is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
143
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.7% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Iliyana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,569
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
58.3%
Peak was 2009 (12)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,684
2021

Spellings of Iliyana

Iliyana is not the most common spelling — Eliana is, with 28.6% against Iliyana's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Iliyana around the world

Where Iliyana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2025
    #3,931
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Iliyana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,398
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,684
2021
Peak year
2009
12 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Iliyana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Iliyana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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