Liana

Where Liana comes from

The dictionaries list Liana as a given name — a female given name from Latin, derived from Juliana or Eliana — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1929
    First appearance
    #4,053 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1937
    Liana Orfei born
    actress
  3. 1995
    Liana Liberato born
    American actress
  4. 2025
    Peak, #385
    801 babies named Liana — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, derived from Juliana or Eliana
Namesakes
  • Liana Liberato · American actress, born 1995
  • Liana Orfei · actress, born 1937
  • Liana Isakadze · Soviet and Georgian violinist, music educator, conductor, 1946–2024
  • Liana Badr · Palestinian novelist and short story writer, born 1950
  • Liana Tsotadze · Olympic diver, born 1961

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.