Alianna

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 240 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
240
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#938
down from #811
UK popularity
#2440
11 babies

How Alianna has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#729#903#1076201520212025#938

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#994
2016#994
2018#877
2019#829
2020#816
2021#832
2022#951
2023#943
2024#811
2025#938

Alianna by the numbers

In 2025, 11 babies in England and Wales were named Alianna. In the US, 240 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 267 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Alianna

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 Alianna. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Ariannamost holy; form of Ariadne3,264 in the US (2017)
  • Aviannabird-like; a form of Avia with the suffix -anna646 in the US (2017)
  • Alannafair; beautiful; a form of Alana563 in the US (2017)
  • Aliyannaexalted; noble; a form of Aliyah43 in the US (2017)
  • Allannafair, bright; a form of Alana7 in the US (2017)
  • Aliana324 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Alianna

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

  • Alyanaexalted; a modern spelling of Aliyah83 in England and Wales (2025)
  • 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)
  • Alyanna111 in the US (2017)
  • Aliannah37 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Alianna

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