The first name Eliana is of Hebrew origin and goes back to Hebrew ‘el’ for ‘God’ and ‘Yahweh’, which is especially in Judaism next to ‘eliahu’ the name of God. Eliana means as much as ‘My God is Yahweh’.
Eliana is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The first name Eliana is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #74 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Eliana, accounting for approximately 0.20 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 54,479 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Eliana. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The first name Eliana is of Hebrew origin and goes back to Hebrew ‘el’ for ‘God’ and ‘Yahweh’, which is especially in Judaism next to ‘eliahu’ the name of God. Eliana means as much as ‘My God is Yahweh’.
The name 'el' developed ... into a generic term for 'god,' 'divine being,' or 'divine nature' in many Semitic languages. The Arabic title of God, Allah, is also derived from it.
The name Eliana may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Eliana is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 876 women in Nevada is called Eliana. In total, that’s 510 women who feel addressed when the name Eliana is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #235 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Eliana as the answer a total of 54,474 times. This places Eliana at #492 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Eliana as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Eliana is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Eliana and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Eliana, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Eliana
Eliana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
I
A
N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
L
I
A
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Eliana sounds like this:
