Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Ljiljana is a romanization of Лїляна. Лїляна possibly comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Italian.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ljiljana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 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 784 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.
Ljiljana’s family of names
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Ljiljana is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Лїляна.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ljiljana
- Ljiljana PetrovićSerbian singer1939–2020
- Ljiljana BlagojevićSerbian actressborn 1955
- Ljiljana ButtlerRomani musician (1944-2010)
- Ljiljana NikolovskaCroatian pop singerborn 1964
- Ljiljana KrstićSerbian actress1919–2001
- Ljiljana LašićSerbian actressborn 1946
- Ljiljana BakićSerbian architect, author, essayist1939–2022
- Ljiljana SmajlovićSerbian journalistborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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