Ilana
From the Hebrew *ilan*, meaning tree: Ilana is the feminine form and keeps that one plain sense. It stays rare in Poland, given only to girls, and most people here have never met one.
Ilana Pronunciation
Ilana is pronounced ee-LAH-nah (/iˈlana/).
What Ilana means
Where Ilana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ilana comes from Hebrew, where the word ilan means tree. The feminine form, Ilana, carries that same plain meaning: a tree, rooted and growing. Among Jewish families the name has long belonged to daughters, and its sense stays close to the natural world it names.
There is a Hebrew festival called Tu BiShvat, the new year of the trees, and the name sits comfortably beside it. A girl called Ilana shares her name with something that puts down roots and reaches up. The meaning is not decorative. It is the thing itself: drzewo, a tree.
In a Polish class register, Ilana stands out a little. It has no Polish name-day of its own, no long list of diminutives, no masculine twin. What it has is the Hebrew root and a single clear image. Say the name and you have named a tree.
How many people are named Ilana
1 in 99312 women in Poland is named Ilana. 227 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2064 among female names.
Ilana's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Ilana as a middle name
Ilana is a first name for 227 women in Poland and a middle name for another 16, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1832nd, between Hui (16) and Ivanka (16).
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#1830 Heliodora16
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#1831 Hui16
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#1832 Ilana16
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#1833 Ivanka16
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#1834 Janice16