Entry № 5926 · Latin origin

Liliana Liliana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lil-ee-AHN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Lily"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "lily".

Liliana is the Latinate elaboration of Lily — from the Latin lilium, the lily flower.

Liliana is widely used across Italy, Spain, Portugal, Romania, and Latin America. In the U.S. it sits in the top 130 and has been climbing. The character Liliana Vess in Magic: The Gathering has brought it new gaming-culture visibility.

Lily — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Liliana
Transliteration
Liliana
Pronunciation
/ ˌlɪl.iˈɑːn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Liliana stands.

Liliana 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.

Lilianas before her.

Real people
Liliana Cavani
Italian film director.
born 1933
In fiction
Liliana Vess
Character in Magic: The Gathering.
1993 onward

Names connected to Liliana.

The number behind Liliana.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Liliana reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.