Liane
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɫiˈæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 17K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 81K
- ATAustria≈1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liane 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Liane | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 12,380 | 1 in 17K | 13K | Liane | 112 |
| US United States | 4,089 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Liane | 164 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 3 | Liane | 33 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Liane | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,129 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | Liane | 12 |
| AT Austria | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 89 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Liane | 37 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Liane is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, liana (plant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, ) Liana: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von JuHane (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Short form of Exrane. Also: Lianne.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Dutch, alternative form of liaan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, herbaceous or woody vine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Liane de Pougyb. 1869FRFrench courtesan, dancer and novelist, editor
- Franziska zu Reventlowb. 1871DEnot in their usual nameGerman writer, artist and translator (1871-1918)
- Liane Zimblerb. 1892USAustrian-American architect and interior architect (1892–1987)
- Liane Haidb. 1895ATActress, singer (1895-2000)
- Liane Russellb. 1923USAmerican geneticist
- Liane Augustinb. 1928DEGerman-Austrian singer
- Liane Alexandra Curtisb. 1965USAmerican actress
- Liane Moriartyb. 1966AUAustralian author
- Liane Balabanb. 1980CACanadian actress
- Liane Lippertb. 1998DEGerman cyclist
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 64 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Liane mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin lilium ‘lily’; associated with purity. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Liane?
- A machine transcription gives /ɫiˈæn/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Liane?
- In the etymology graph, Jill, Juliana and Gillian are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Liane a male or female name?
- Liane 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 Liane have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Liane in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liane.
- How common is the name Liane?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 12,380 people named Liane in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Liane?
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/lianeThe 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, “Liane”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.