Alyana

What Alyana means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Alyana yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #478 vs #1,493 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Alyana?

US: Rising: up from #2060 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4103 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 143 girls got the name (#1493 that year). First in the US records in 1990.

How common

• About 1 in 11,240 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,052 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,578 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.24 per 1,000 girls), TX (0.19 per 1,000 girls), FL (0.18 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Alyana is #1493 in the US and #478 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Alyana were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elyana197 US · 39 E&W
• Elyanna133 US · 18 E&W
• Ilyana78 US · 26 E&W
• Eliyana69 US · 30 E&W
• Alyanna93 US · 4 E&W
• Aliyana58 US · 20 E&W
• Ellyana66 US
• Illyana29 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Alyana

Girls

• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls
• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*
• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Meadow#286Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #673 in 2015, #286 in 2025

For a brother

• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Ayden#257Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Griffin#222Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #222 vs #1,035 in 2025
• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Alyana’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.