Liliana

Where Liliana comes from

The dictionaries list Liliana as a given name — a female given name from Latin, a Latinate form of Lilian, or borrowed from Italian or Spanish — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • 4 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1930
    Liliana Segre born
    Italian Holocaust survivor and senator for life
  2. 1933
    Liliana Cavani born
    Italian film director and screenwriter
  3. 1950
    First appearance
    #4,738 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Peak, #78
    3,118 babies named Liliana — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a Latinate form of Lilian, or borrowed from Italian or Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Liliana Cavani · Italian film director and screenwriter, born 1933
  • Liliana Segre · Italian Holocaust survivor and senator for life, born 1930
  • Liliana Gafencu · Romanian rower, born 1975
  • Liliana Mumy · American actress, born 1994
  • Liliana Abud · Mexican film and telenovela actress and screenwriter, born 1948

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.