Liana
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A climbing woody vine, usually tropical
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫiˈɑnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Armenia it is the 37th most common given name.
- RORomania≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 20K
- AMArmenia≈1 in 192as Լիանա
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Liana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 391 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
20,013 named Leanna, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ליאנה in IL Israel, LV Latvia and Լիանա in AM Armenia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Liana is read(measured from records)
Liana is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English33%
A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Spanish: to bind like vine
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- Portuguese11%
liana (a climbing woody vine, usually tropical)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish11%
Abreviación de Juliana.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Georgian10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Liana in Georgian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 20,013as Leanna | 1 in 17K | 20K | Liana | 391 |
| GE Georgia | #49 | 19,959as ლიანა | 1 in 200 | 20K | Liana | 41 |
| AM Armenia | #37 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 192 | 121 | Լիանա | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 10,432 | 1 in 20K | 10K | Liana | 126 |
| RO Romania | #440 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Liana | 69 |
| LV Latvia | — | 1,594 | 1 in 1.2K | 1.6K | ליאנה | 17 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 315 | ליאנה | 26 |
20,013 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling leanna. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Liana is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In Swedish, Liana kan vara en förkortad form av → Juliana eller → Eliana. Liane är en fransk och tysk form.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Liana Del Balzob. 1899ITItalian actress (1899-1982)
- Liana Millub. 1914ITItalian writer (1914–2005)
- Liana Orfeib. 1937ITactress
- Liana Badrb. 1950PSPalestinian novelist and short story writer
- Liana Drahováb. 1953SKfigure skater
- Liana Kanellib. 1954GRGreek journalist and politician
- Liana Mesa Luacesb. 1977CUvolleyball player
- Liana Kb. 1978CACanadian YouTuber
- Kara Braxtonb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (1983–2026)
- Liana Liberatob. 1995USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 102 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,722 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 10K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 10K | #1,664 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 10K | #2,146 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 801 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 515 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 325 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 325 | #721 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 45 | #1,664 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 29 | #1,722 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Liana?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫiˈɑnə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Liana mean?
- In English, A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
- Where does the name Liana come from?
- From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- Is Liana a male or female name?
- Liana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Liana have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Leanna, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Liana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liana is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Liana?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,432 people named Liana in 2022, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Liana compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Liana is the 37th most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Liana?
- In the etymology graph, Elizabeth, Lisa and Isabel are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Juliana and Lily.
What do you want to know about Liana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lianaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liana” — the 37th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.