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Jilliana

Gender
Girl
Say it
jil-ee-AH-na
Origin
Latin

Jilliana is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “from the Roman family name Julius”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Jilliana mean?

Latin: elaboration of Jillian, from Juliana

“from the Roman family name Julius”

An elaborated form of Jillian, itself an English form of Juliana, the feminine of Julian.

Is Jilliana a girl's or a boy's name?

Jilliana is a girls' name.

How popular is Jilliana in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the girls named Jilliana in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 18 in 20112024
Jilliana in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20248#11,117
20230–
20228#11,225
20218#11,141
20209#10,245
20197#12,442
201813#8,142
20179#10,685
201612#8,872
20159#10,861
201412#8,961
201313#8,575
201214#8,204
201118#6,852
201016#7,510
200915#8,054
200817#7,404
200710#10,814
200616#7,480
20058#11,828
20048#11,617
20037#12,401
20025#15,426
20010–
200010#9,156
19990–
19980–
19975#13,719
19960–
19950–
19948#9,580

Nicknames for Jilliana

Names like Jilliana

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jilliana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jilliana, updated 20 October 2026.