Given name · also Late Latin, Latin
Éliane
“my God is Yahweh”
Éliane is a feminine given name from Latin. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Éliane goes back to Biblical Hebrew אֵלִיָּהו, meaning “my God is Yahweh.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Latin, Late Latin, and Greek naming traditions.
Éliane’s family of names
Éliane has a short form in Liane. Éliane shares a linguistic root with Eliana.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Éliane
- Éliane RadigueFrench composer1932–2026
- Éliane de MeuseBelgian painter (1899-1993)
- Eliane TillieuxBelgian politicianborn 1966
- Liane FolyFrench singerborn 1962
- Eliane PlewmanFrench Resistance member (1917–1944)
- Éliane Vogel-PolskyBelgian lawyer and feminist1926–2015
- Eliane SaholinirinaMalagasy runnerborn 1982
- Éliane MontelFrench physicist and chemist1898–1993
- Éliane RichepinFrench pianist, composer and music educator1910–1999
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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