Aliana

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 324 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
324
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#603
down from #595
UK popularity
#1809
16 babies

How Aliana has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#527#713#898201520202025#603

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#735
2016#750
2017#830
2018#768
2019#710
2020#707
2021#658
2022#647
2023#596
2024#595
2025#603

Aliana by the numbers

In 2025, 16 babies in England and Wales were named Aliana. In the US, 324 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 419 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Aliana

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Aliana. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Arianavery holy; form of Ariadne3,870 in the US (2017)
  • Alinabright; a form of Alina or Aline1,650 in the US (2017)
  • Alanafair, bright; feminine form of Alan1,432 in the US (2017)
  • Aliyanaexalted; a modern spelling of Aliyah182 in the US (2017)
  • Alyanaexalted; a modern spelling of Aliyah83 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Allanafair, beautiful; a form of Alana65 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Aliana

Names that are said the same way as Aliana, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Alaniavariant of Alania or Alana, fair or bright32 in the US (2017)
  • Alyonabright light; russian form of helena14 in the US (2017)
  • Ailianaa form of Aileen or Aliana7 in the US (2017)
  • Alianna240 in the US (2017)
  • Alyanna111 in the US (2017)
  • Aliannah37 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Aliana

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