Lianah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- lee-AH-na
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Lianah is a girls' name of Latin origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Lianah mean?
Latin: spelling of Liana; short form of Juliana, Liliana and similar names
A short form of names such as Juliana and Liliana; liana is also the word for a tropical climbing vine.
Meaning borrowed from Liana. More on Wiktionary.
Is Lianah a girl's or a boy's name?
Lianah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lianah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Lianah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Lianah in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 895 girls in the US were given Lianah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #367, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Lianah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
Names like Lianah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Zaniyah, Sariyah, Kaliyah, Luna, Amoura, Zariah, Selah, Zaliyah, Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Naziyah
Other spellings of Lianah
Names related to Lianah
More Latin names
Oliver, Olivia, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Florence, Mabel, Nora, Rosie, Emilia, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian, Clara
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, “Lianah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lianah, updated 20 October 2026.