Liana

LYA-na; lee-AHN-uh

Short form of -liana names, Portuguese, Italian, Georgian, French

"to climb like a vine"

Liana Origin and Meaning

The name Liana is a girl's name of French origin meaning "to climb like a vine".

Liana is a pretty, graceful and simple name that doesn't fall flat. The name of a flowering tropical vine that grows in forests, it's an international gem that works well in multiple languages.

As a nature name, Liana derives from the French liane meaning "liana, clematis", however, it can also be considered a short form of Juliana, Liliana, Eliana, and similar, or, as a spelling variation of the compound name, Leanna.

A Top 100 choice in Switzerland and Slovenia, it also ranks in the Top 500 in the US, the UK, France, and the Netherlands but it would be familiar in Italy, Slovakia, Latvia, Brazil, and Armenia too.

Liana Rank in US Top 1000

# 479 in the US

Liana Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 431 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Liana

• 479 US 2023
• 431 Nameberry 2025
• 163 Canada 2023
• 376 Future 2028
• 402 England 2023
• 66 Germany 2024
• 59 Switzerland 2023
• 99 Slovenia 2023

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Famous People Named Liana

• Liana Liberato American actress
• Liana Kerzner Canadian TV personality
• Liliana "Liana" Burgess Italian translator; wife of novelist Anthony Burgess
• Liana Gabriela Ungur, Romanian tennis player
• Liana Drahová Slovak figure skater

The name Liana in Pop Culture

• Liana character in movie "Barbie and the Diamond Castle"
• Liana character in Shannon Hale book "Princess Academy"