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Lilyana

#1,050 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Lillian

Lilyana has been given to 9,872 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #1,050 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 650 recorded.

Babies named Lilyana, 2025

1 in 14,000

Lilyana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilyana: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lillian

Slavic languages

What Lilyana means

Lilyana is a form of Lillian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Bulgarian Лиляна (Liljana), equivalent to English Lilian.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lilyana (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lilyana is used in English. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Lilyana comes through Bulgarian Лиляна.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lillian and Лиляна.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,872 girls were recorded with the name Lilyana between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 650 in 2012; its best national rank was #472 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #879 in 2020 to #1,050 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #573 in 2015 to #1,050 in 2025.

How common is Lilyana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,000
237 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,780
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,050
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilyana 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilyana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilyanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilyana was born before 2013 — so the typical Lilyana is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,872
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (5,260).

Is Lilyana 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
−155
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−171
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−477
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.5%
Peak was 2012 (650)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#472
2011

Spellings of Lilyana

Lilyana is not the most common spelling — Liliana is, with 29.2% against Lilyana's 3.8%.

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 Lilyana is used

Across 2016–2025, Lilyana was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,887 girls, against 1 in 4,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 33,333).

353 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,887
  2. 2Rhode Island1 in 2,041
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 2,326
  4. 4Arizona1 in 2,500
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 2,703
  6. 6Colorado1 in 2,778
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 2,857
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 3,030

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.

Geographically, Lilyana is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 53% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Lilyana around the world

Where Lilyana 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
    2000–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2016–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2005–2025
    #1,132
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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 Lilyana

People whose public names include Lilyana, 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.

Lilyana in other languages

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

LilanaLilianaLiljana

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

Lilyana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,050
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 171
Best rank ever
#472
2011
Peak year
2012
650 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,872
Count in 2025
237

Names similar to Lilyana

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

LillianaLillyanaLilianaLiliannaLilithLilyannTatyanaMontanaLillyanLilyannaLilianLillithLilyanYulianaLilanaSantanaLucianaLilijanaLiliaLilliannaAiyanaAitanaLilliaDariana

Names with a curve like Lilyana

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

BryleeBraelynAddisynJayleeJaelynnJazlynnLailahAmelieJayleenPaitynJaylahMaleah

Sibling names for Lilyana

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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