Lilyana
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Slavic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,047 for girls
Lilyana is a girls' name of Slavic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 1,047th for girls in the US (237 babies).
What does Lilyana mean?
Slavic
A female given name from the Slavic languages.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Lilyana a girl's or a boy's name?
Lilyana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 237 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lilyana in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 13% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Lilyana, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,159th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 19 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Lilyana than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Lilyana in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 11 girls in the UK were given Lilyana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,106, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Lilyana 8
- Lillyanna 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Lilyana in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 13 | #2,175 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 10 | #2,615 |
| 2021 | 19 | #1,669 |
| 2020 | 13 | #2,159 |
| 2019 | 8 | #3,018 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,652 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 12 | #2,328 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 10 | #2,666 |
| 2011 | 12 | #2,265 |
| 2010 | 16 | #1,829 |
| 2009 | 13 | #2,037 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
How popular is Lilyana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,047th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 237 about 1 in 6,800 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 23% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 237 girls in the US were named Lilyana, making it the 1,047th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 879th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 650 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
2025 had fewer girls named Lilyana than any year since 2004.
Half of all the girls named Lilyana in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 414 girls in the US were given Lilyana or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #690, up from #1,047 for this spelling alone.
Lilyana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 237 | #1,047 |
| 2024 | 298 | #895 |
| 2023 | 296 | #900 |
| 2022 | 300 | #915 |
| 2021 | 302 | #896 |
| 2020 | 305 | #879 |
| 2019 | 360 | #771 |
| 2018 | 408 | #711 |
| 2017 | 447 | #662 |
| 2016 | 444 | #658 |
| 2015 | 535 | #573 |
| 2014 | 583 | #533 |
| 2013 | 580 | #513 |
| 2012 | 650 | #472 |
| 2011 | 628 | #472 |
| 2010 | 625 | #482 |
| 2009 | 583 | #520 |
| 2008 | 492 | #626 |
| 2007 | 402 | #724 |
| 2006 | 351 | #782 |
| 2005 | 240 | #1,015 |
| 2004 | 189 | #1,185 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,541 |
| 2002 | 112 | #1,641 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,122 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,813 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,468 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,219 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,894 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,301 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,216 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,730 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,653 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,459 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,443 |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,745 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
Names like Lilyana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mila, Lyra, Liyana, Sienna, Lyla, Amira, Layla, Safa, Ayla, Luna, Khadija, Fatima
Other spellings of Lilyana
Names related to Lilyana
Liliana, Lillian, Lilian, Lilianna, Lilliana, Lily-Ann, Lilly-Ann, Lily-Anne, Lillianna, Lilyann
More Slavic names
Milan, Vera, Mira, Nadia, Milana, Rayna, Zora, Milena, Raina, Damir, Lev, Siyana, Vlad, Yuri, Milah, Raisa
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Lilyana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lilyana, updated 20 October 2026.