Liliana
A Slavic name that stays close to its source: the lily, in Polish lilia. It sits comfortably inside Poland's top 200 for girls, familiar enough that most people can name one, and it's still handed out steadily, softening to Lila or Lilka at home.
Liliana Pronunciation
Liliana is pronounced leel-YAH-nah (/lilˈjana/).
What Liliana means
Where Liliana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Liliana grows from Slavic soil, and the meaning stays plain: the lily, in Polish lilia. The flower named the name. Long before scholars mapped its roots, the bloom itself gave the sense that people still hear. The word for the flower travels across many European languages, and Polish holds it as lilia.
The name bends easily into other shapes. Lilian is the trimmer variant, Lilianna the fuller one, and both sit on the same register at a Polish urząd. Among friends a Liliana becomes Lila or Lilka, and the diminutives soften four syllables into something a child answers to fast.
In a class register the name lands between other girls, syllables a teacher calls without stumbling. Under every form of it, Lilian, Lilianna, Lila, Lilka, sits the same short word: lily.
When Liliana celebrates name day
Liliana appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 14 February.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Liliana
1 in 451 women in Poland is named Liliana. 49,941 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #188 among female names.
Liliana's popularity over time
2,408 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #28 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2000.
Where Liliana is most popular
Liliana is most popular in Świętokrzyskie, 37% above the national average (686 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Warmian-Masurian (+22%) and Subcarpathian (+16%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Lublin, 20% and 15% below average respectively.
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Świętokrzyskie686 girls born+37%
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Warmian-Masurian789 girls born+22%
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Subcarpathian1,258 girls born+16%
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Pomeranian1,458 girls born+10%
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Lesser Poland2,206 girls born+8%
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Silesian2,223 girls born+8%
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Opole442 girls born+6%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian966 girls born−2%
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Masovian3,097 girls born−3%
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Podlaskie568 girls born−4%
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Łódź1,080 girls born−5%
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Lubusz419 girls born−6%
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West Pomeranian696 girls born−9%
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Lower Silesian1,246 girls born−12%
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Lublin785 girls born−15%
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Greater Poland1,558 girls born−20%
Liliana as a middle name
Liliana is a first name for 49,941 women in Poland and a middle name for another 6,539, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 132nd, between Nadia (6,556) and Malwina (6,445).
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130
6,567Julianna
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131
6,556Nadia
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1326,539Liliana
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133
6,445Malwina
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134
6,424Nina