Given name
Eliana
“The Lord answers our prayers”
Eliana is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “The Lord answers our prayers.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “The Lord answers our prayers.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1961. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eliana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 76,146
- 42 boys · 76,104 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 8,196 babies
- 2025
- 8,196
- #10 for girls · #12,563 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +64%
- Rising fast
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8,191 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 63.7% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. It also appeared in 5 birth records for boys in 2025. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (1,323). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 43,043 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.
Eliana’s family of names
Eliana shares a linguistic root with Éliane. Eliana has a related form in Eli. Eliana has a related form in Elia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 14
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Elivariant
- Ellianavariant · English
- Eliannavariant
- Eliavariant
- Elyanavariant
- Elyannavariant
- Elyanvariant
- Eleanavariant
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Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Eliana
- ElianaBrazilian recording artist, singer, actress and television presenterborn 1972
- Eliana JonesCanadian actressborn 1997
- Eliana Rubashkynwoman who lost her citizenship after hormone replacement therapyborn 1988
- Eliana PittmanBrazilian actress and singer (1945-)
- Eliana RamosUruguayan model (1988–2007)
- Eliana GaeteChilean hurdler, sprinter, long jumper and middle distance runnerborn 1932
- Eliana StábileArgentine association football playerborn 1993
- Eliana KrawczykArgentina's navy officier (submarine)1982–2017
- Eliana BórmidaArgentinean architectborn 1946
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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