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Lianna

#1,105 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lianna has been given to 6,434 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #1,105 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 231 recorded.

Babies named Lianna, 2025

1 in 15,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lianna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lianna means

Lianna is a given name.

The naming story behind Lianna

Wikidata records Lianna as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98827012, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,434 girls were recorded with the name Lianna between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 231 in 2020; its best national rank was #1,073 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,073 in 2020 to #1,105 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,213 in 2015 to #1,105 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.

How common is Lianna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 15,300
216 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 7,440
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,105
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lianna 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lianna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Liannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lianna was born before 2010 — so the typical Lianna is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,429
People you could plausibly meet
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2010s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (2,026).

Is Lianna 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
+109
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−32
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+108
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.5%
Peak was 2020 (231)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,073
2020

Spellings of Lianna

Lianna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 31.3% against Lianna's 0.14%.

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 Lianna is used

Across 2016–2025, Lianna was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,941 girls, against 1 in 6,622 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

234 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,941
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 3,571
  3. 3New York1 in 3,846
  4. 4Florida1 in 4,167
  5. 5California1 in 5,263
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 5,263
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 5,556
  8. 8Texas1 in 7,692

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.

Lianna around the world

Where Lianna 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
    1996–2025
    #2,138
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–2023
    #749
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2007–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2000–2025
    #2,707
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1973–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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 Lianna

People whose public names include Lianna, 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.

Lianna in other languages

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

LianaJulianna

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

Lianna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,105
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 32
Best rank ever
#1,073
2020
Peak year
2020
231 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,434
Count in 2025
216

Names similar to Lianna

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

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Names with a curve like Lianna

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

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Sibling names for Lianna

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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