Liana comes from the French word for a tropical climbing vine — itself from the Latin ligare, "to bind." The word entered French via the West Indies in the 17th century.
Liana entered the U.S. top 1000 in 1990 and has been rising. Today it sits in the U.S. top 700.
Liana 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Liana reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.