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The first name 
Ellianna

Ellianna is a female first name.

Ellianna is a common name for girls!

The name Ellianna isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Ellianna ranks 791. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Ellianna. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ellianna.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Ellianna

What does the name 
Ellianna mean?

Invented in the 1990s, Ellianna is another spelling of the Hebrew name Eliana meaning ‘My God has answered’.

By 2021, a total... of just 4400 babies were named Ellianna.

Ellianna -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Ellianna, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 39 states are home to women and girls named Ellianna. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Ellianna living in one state or another. If your name is Ellianna and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Arizona, which has the most people named Ellianna relative to the population, you still have to ask 18,276 women and girls their names before you hear Ellianna as an answer just once.

Ellianna has 8 letters 
and begins with an E

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 eight letters, the name Ellianna is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.

Other names with 
E, l, l, i, a, n, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Ellianna – E, l, l, i, a, n, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Illeanna or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ellianna

If your name is Ellianna 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...

This is how you spell the name Ellianna

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ellianna, you can simply say:

Elephant

Lion

Lion

Igloo

Apple

Nut

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Ellianna is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Ellianna in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Ellianna

Ellianna

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Ellianna

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Ellianna is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

E
L
L
I
A
N
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Ellianna

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
L
I
A
N
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Ellianna sounds like this: