Liyaana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- lee-YAA-na
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,247 for girls
Liyaana is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “softness, tenderness”. In 2025 it ranked 1,247th for girls in the UK (27 babies).
What does Liyaana mean?
Arabic: spelling of Liyana
“softness, tenderness”
A spelling of Liyana, from the Arabic root meaning soft or gentle, the same root as Layan.
Is Liyaana a girl's or a boy's name?
Liyaana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 27 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Liyaana in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,247th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27 about 1 in 10,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 144% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the UK were named Liyaana, making it the 1,247th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Liyaana of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Liyaana in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,197th in England and Wales.
Liyaana in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #1,247 |
| 2024 | 20 | #1,592 |
| 2023 | 14 | #2,070 |
| 2022 | 8 | #3,050 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,846 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 11 | #2,464 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
Names like Liyaana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Khadija, Amira, Hafsa, Hiba, Nusaybah, Rahma, Ayah, Rumaysa, Zainab, Safiya
Names related to Liyaana
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Liyaana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/liyaana, updated 20 October 2026.