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Lilijana

#9,827 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Lillian

Lilijana has been given to 77 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #9,827 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Lilijana, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilijana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lillian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lilijana means

Lilijana is a form of Lillian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lilijana → Lillian. The family’s proposed meaning is “lily”, recorded in English with the source elements lilium.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lillian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 77 girls were recorded with the name Lilijana between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2010; its best national rank was #8,122 in 2010.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,615 in 2015 to #9,827 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 Lilijana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,827
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilijana 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilijana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilijanas were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
77
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Choose a decade

2010s — 44.2% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Lilijana 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,788
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2010 (15)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,122
2010

Spellings of Lilijana

Lilijana is not the most common spelling — Liliana is, with 47.8% against Lilijana'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.

Lilijana around the world

Where Lilijana 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
    2005–2013
    #4,739
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lilijana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,827
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,122
2010
Peak year
2010
15 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
77
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Lilijana

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

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Sibling names for Lilijana

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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