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Liane

#10,552 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Juliane

Liane has been given to 3,879 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #10,552 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 124 recorded.

Babies named Liane, 2025

1 in 368,000

Liane over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liane: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Juliane

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liane means

Liane is a short form of Juliane.

Origin, language, and formation

Liane is used in German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Juliane.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,879 girls were recorded with the name Liane between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 124 in 1959; its best national rank was #941 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,908 in 2020 to #10,552 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,555 in 2015 to #10,552 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Liane?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,552
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liane 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lianes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liane was born before 1969 — so the typical Liane is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,498
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1960s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (873).

Is Liane 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
+185
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,356
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.90×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.3%
Peak was 1959 (124)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#941
1959

Spellings of Liane

Liane is not the most common spelling — Diane is, with 25.4% against Liane's 0.19%.

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.

Where Liane is used

Across 1910–2025, Liane was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,724 girls, against 1 in 62,303 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

058 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,724
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5New York1 in 50,000
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Hampshire1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Liane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Liane around the world

Where Liane 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
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1975–1988
    #577
    in 1988
  • Ireland
    1981–1996
    #534
    in 1996
  • France
    1900–2025
    #3,421
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1950–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Liane

People whose public names include Liane, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Liane in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Liane. Linked forms have their own page here.

LaneLaineLianaLianiJulianeLiene

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Liane by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,552
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,356
Best rank ever
#941
1959
Peak year
1959
124 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,879
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Liane

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

LianneLiahLiannaLianiLiaraLianaZhaneLianArianeLaneRoxaneLianyShaneJeaneLiatLiamLiannyLiannJulianeAlaneLiaDeaneLiahnaAkane

Names with a curve like Liane

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Liane, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LanitaLissaMartiRoniJuleeCristineLavondaRanaeLesleeJackiCarlettaAndra

Sibling names for Liane

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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