Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Uliana isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2005. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Uliana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 99
- 0 boys · 99 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #13,089 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,089 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 565 as a first name in 2020; 130 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Uliana’s family of names
Uliana may belong to the same name family as ULIANNA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
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 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Julianaequivalent
- Lianaequivalent
- Juliannaequivalent
- Giulianaequivalent
- Yulianaequivalent
- Julikaequivalent
- Iulianaequivalent
- Juljanaequivalent
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Uliana
- Uljana SemjonovaLatvian basketball player (1952-2026)
- Uliana KravchenkoUkrainian poet (1860–1947)
- Uliana of TverSecond wife of King Algirdas of Lithuania1331–1392
- Uliana NigmatullinaRussian biathleteborn 1994
- Uliana DonskovaRussian rhythmic gymnastborn 1992
- Ulyana Gromovamember of the Soviet underground resistance in World War II1924–1943
- Ulyana NeshevaUkrainian painter and tattoo artist (born 1983)
- Uliana OlshanskaGrand Duchess of Lithuania, wife of Vytautas
- Uliana KliuevaRussian diverborn 2002
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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