Ilana is a Hebrew name meaning a tree, from ilan, with all the rootedness, shelter and quiet growth that image brings. It is the feminine of a word for the oak and the tree in general.
Popular in Israel and among Jewish families, it has a soft, natural beauty and an easy, flowing sound.
Grounded and green, Ilana is a name that grows with a child.
Ilana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ilana reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.