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The first name 
Liliana

Liliana is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

Liliana – known and loved in the US!

The name Liliana 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, Liliana ranks 113. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 17 were named Liliana. In the entire USA, approximately 64,421 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Liliana. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

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

What does the name 
Liliana mean?

The first name Liliana most likely goes back to the name Elisabeth. It means ‘God is fullness, perfection’ and is taken from the Bible. It is the Greek form of the Hebrew name ‘Elischeba’.

The name is ... generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Liliana -
a name for the future?

This is a real surprise! Liliana is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2022, it reached its best rank at #94 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Liliana much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Liliana was observed for the first time ever in 1950, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2022, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 2,768 times. Whether this beautiful girls' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Liliana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Liliana -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Liliana 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 Liliana 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 596 women in Nevada is called Liliana. In total, that’s 750 women who feel addressed when the name Liliana is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #163 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 Liliana as the answer a total of 64,341 times. This places Liliana at #438 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 Liliana as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Liliana has 7 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With seven letters, the name Liliana has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.

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

If you take all the letters in the name Liliana – L, i, l, i, a, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Lailani or Illiana.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Liliana

If your name is Liliana 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 Liliana

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

Lion

Igloo

Lion

Igloo

Apple

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Liliana 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 Liliana in Braille?

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

Liliana

Liliana

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
I
L
I
A
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Liliana

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.

L
I
L
I
A
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. Liliana sounds like this: