Liljana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/liʎa˨˦na/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liljana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Macedonian Лилјана (Liljana), from лилјан (liljan).
- ALAlbania1 in 637(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 6.7K
- SISlovenia1 in 2.3K
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 Liljana 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.
- North Macedonia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 637 (inferred from the name graph)
5,914 named Лилјана
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лилјана in MK North Macedonia.
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 Macedonian Лилјана (Liljana), from лилјан (liljan).
Sources 2
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liljana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MK North Macedonia | #83 | 5,914as Лилјана | 1 in 359 | 5.9K | Лилјана | 21 |
| AL Albania | #87 | 4,829 | 1 in 637 | 4.8K | Liljana | 30 |
| SI Slovenia | #524 | 911 | 1 in 2.3K | 911 | Liljana | 12 |
| HR Croatia | #676 | 631 | 1 in 6.7K | 711 | Liljana | 21 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Liljana | 17 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Liljana | 15 |
5,914 people counted by State Statistical Office — living population names. 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: State Statistical Office — living population names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Liljana 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 English, A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Лилјана (Liljana), equivalent to Lilian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Lilyana Dimitrovab. 1918BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian communist (1918-1944)
- Lilyana Rusevab. 1932BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian painter
- Lilyana Mavrodinovab. 1932BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian historian (1932-2016)
- Lili Ivanovab. 1939BGnot in their usual namemusical artist
- Lile Georgijevab. 1939MKnot in their usual nameMacedonian actress
- Lilyana Tomovab. 1946BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian middle distance runner
- Liljana Kondakçib. 1950ALAlbanian singer
- Liliyana Panayotova-Ivanovab. 1956BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian sprinter
- Liljana Popovskab. 1956MKpolitician from North Macedonia
- Liljana Zaturoskab. 1964MKpolitician from North Macedonia
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 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4.8K | #27 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 972 | #186 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 971 | #185 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 970 | #185 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 966 | #193 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 966 | #187 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 958 | #197 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 955 | #197 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 951 | #197 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 951 | #198 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 942 | #200 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 940 | #207 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Liljana mean, and where does it come from?
- From Macedonian Лилјана (Liljana), from лилјан (liljan). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Liljana?
- A machine transcription gives /liʎa˨˦na/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Liljana a male or female name?
- Liljana 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.
- What are other forms of the name Liljana?
- In the etymology graph, Liliana, Lillian and Lilia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Liljana have the most bearers?
- In North Macedonia, the national register counted about 5.9 thousand people named Лилјана, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Liljana most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liljana is densest in Albania — about 1 in 637 people — even though North Macedonia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Liljana?
- In Albania, the national register counted 4,829 people named Liljana, about 1 in 637 residents.
- How common is Liljana compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Liljana is the 83rd most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Liljana?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liljanaThe 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, “Liljana” — the 83rd most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.