Entry № 4486 · Greek origin

Iliana Iliana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-lee-AH-nah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"Helen variant (Spanish Helen of Troy)"

Syllables

First recorded

Medieval (Greek)

The meaning

A name that means "helen variant (spanish helen of troy)".

Iliana is from the Greek Iliana — feminine form related to Ilios (Ilion / Troy) + Helene (Helen). 8th c.

Helen variant (Spanish Helen of Troy) — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Ιλιάνα

Transliteration: Iliana
Pronunciation: / ˌiː.liˈɑː.nə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Iliana stands.

Iliana 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.

Namesakes

Ilianas before her.

Real people

Iliana Ros-Lehtinen

First Hispanic woman elected to U.S. Congress 1989-2019.

born 1952

In fiction

Iliana

Greek Helen / Troy.

Names connected to Iliana.

Numerology

The number behind Iliana.

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iliana reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.