Lilyana

Where Lilyana comes from

Transliteration of Bulgarian Лиляна (Liljana), equivalent to English Lilian.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lilyana
  • Slavic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    Lilyana Dimitrova born
    Bulgarian communist
  2. 1946
    Lilyana Tomova born
    Bulgarian middle distance runner
  3. 1981
    First appearance
    #10,411 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2012
    Peak, #472
    650 babies named Lilyana — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2020
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #879.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Slavic languages.
Namesakes
  • Lilyana Tomova · Bulgarian middle distance runner, born 1946
  • Lilyana Dimitrova · Bulgarian communist, 1918–1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.