Entry № 4490 · Hebrew origin

Iliyana Iliyana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-lee-YAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Sunshine (Bulgarian + Iliyana Raeva rhythmic gymnast)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Bulgarian)

A name that means "sunshine (bulgarian + iliyana raeva rhythmic gymnast)".

Iliyana is from the Bulgarian Илияна (Iliyana) — Bulgarian rendition of Slavic feminine derivative of Elijah/Ilya (Hebrew Eliyahu — my God is Yahweh) sun-light associations. Iliyana is one of the Bulgarian feminine names — central to traditional Bulgarian Orthodox Christian heritage. Bulgarian feminine name reflecting Bulgarian Orthodox heritage.

Sunshine (Bulgarian + Iliyana Raeva rhythmic gymnast) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Илияна
Transliteration
Iliyana
Pronunciation
/ iː.liˈjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iliyana stands.

Iliyana 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.

Iliyanas before her.

Real people
Iliyana Raeva
Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast + 3x World Championships gold 1981+1983+1985.
born 1963
In fiction
Iliyana
Bulgarian sunshine.

Names connected to Iliyana.

The number behind Iliyana.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iliyana reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.