Eliana

What Eliana means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Eliana?

US: Rising: up from #102 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #249 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 8,191 girls got the name (#10 that year). First in the US records in 1961.

How common

• About 1 in 196 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 344 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 511 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 HI (12.59 per 1,000 girls), NM (12.2 per 1,000 girls), WY (11.1 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Eliana is #10 in the US and #62 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 Eliana were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Elliana2,099 US · 47 E&W
• Elianna1,404 US · 36 E&W
• Aliana487 US · 16 E&W
• Ellianna450 US · 8 E&W
• Iliana380 US · 13 E&W
• Alianna277 US · 11 E&W
• Eliany182 US
• Elianny147 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 Eliana

Girls

• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Chaya#587“living”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*

For a brother

• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Avi#832“father”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Yosef#663Editor’s note Up from #708 in 2015 to #663 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Eliana’s. Rank is US 2025.