Given name
Biljana
“herbage, vegetation”
Biljana is a feminine given name from Macedonian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Biljana is a romanization of Билјана. Билјана goes back to a word meaning “herbage, vegetation.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Biljana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1974. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 809 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Biljana’s family of names
In Serbian usage, Biljana has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Μπίλιανα. In Macedonian usage, Biljana is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Билјана. In English usage, Biljana was borrowed from the Macedonian form Билјана.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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 Biljana
- Biljana Plavšićpresident of Republika Srpska (1996-1998)born 1930
- Biljana SrbljanovićSerbian playwrightborn 1970
- Biljana BorzanCroatian politicianborn 1971
- Bilja KrstićSerbian singerborn 1955
- Bilyana Raevapoliticianborn 1973
- Biljana MajstorovićOlympic medalist in basketballborn 1959
- Biljana PetrovićYugoslavian high jumperborn 1961
- Biljana Pawlowa-DimitrovaBulgarian tennis playerborn 1978
- Biljana TopićSerbian athletics competitorborn 1977
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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