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Liyana

#1,059 in 2025Girls' name

Soft, delicate

Liyana has been given to 1,681 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,059 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 232 recorded.

Babies named Liyana, 2025

1 in 14,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liyana: meaning, origin, and history

Soft, delicate

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liyana means

Liyana means “soft, delicate”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,681 girls were recorded with the name Liyana between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 232 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,059 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,723 in 2020 to #1,059 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,450 in 2015 to #1,059 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 Liyana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,300
232 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,930
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,059
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liyana 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 9,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liyana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Liyanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liyana was born before 2020 — so the typical Liyana is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,681
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 52.5% of all recorded uses (882).

Is Liyana 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
+429
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+664
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,391
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (232)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,059
2025

Spellings of Liyana

Liyana is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 38.8% against Liyana's 0.18%.

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 Liyana is used

Across 2016–2025, Liyana was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 11,146 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,167
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,556
  3. 3Virginia1 in 5,556
  4. 4Michigan1 in 7,143
  5. 5Illinois1 in 7,692
  6. 6California1 in 12,500
  7. 7Florida1 in 12,500
  8. 8Texas1 in 12,500

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.

Liyana around the world

Where Liyana 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
    2004–2025
    #111
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #359
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2005–2025
    #270
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #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.

Liyana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,059
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 664
Best rank ever
#1,059
2025
Peak year
2025
232 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,681
Count in 2025
232

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

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Sibling names for Liyana

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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