Entry № 5987 · Arabic origin

Liyana Liyana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lee-YAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Tender / soft"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "tender / soft".

Liyana is from the Arabic Liyāna.

Tender / soft — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

ليانا
Transliteration
Liyāna
Pronunciation
/ liːˈjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Liyana stands.

Liyana 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.

Liyanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Quran 20:44 / classical Arabic beauty-trope
Arabic tenderness softness + layyin soft + Quran 20:44 speak to him with gentle speech + classical Arabic poetic-aesthetic + pan-Arab + Persian + Levantine heritage
Quran + poetry

Names connected to Liyana.

The number behind Liyana.

8

The Visionary

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