Aliana
Meaning
variant of Alana or Eliana
The story
Aliana is filed by Behind the Name as a variant of Alana or Eliana, two doors into the same soft four-syllable sound. The American records show a name assembled recently and quickly: about 6 girls in the 1970s, about 330 in the 1990s, about 2,000 in the 2000s, about 3,800 in the 2010s, and about 2,800 so far this decade. Brazil complicates the picture pleasantly: about 1,300 in the census with a median age of 38, about 480 of them born in the 1980s alone, most of Brazil's Alianas arriving before the American rise. Both doorways lead the same direction, Alana as the feminine of Alan and Eliana as a form of the French Éliane, and either way the result is long, liquid, and easy to carry in more than one language.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Aliana peaked in the 2010s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
1,341 people · the #6,793 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 142,857 · median age 38
Among people named Aliana living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 27 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Aliana
Most people given the name Aliana in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Aliana deep dive
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