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.

# 479 in the US

Liana Rank in US Top 1000

# 580 on Nameberry

Liana Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Liana Popularity

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

Liana in Pop Culture

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