Girl's name
Eliana
Say it el-ee-AH-nuh
Hebrew origin my God has answered
4 syllables
Where Eliana is loved, common and rare
Common across Canada, Switzerland, England and Wales and eight more places. Rare in Slovenia, Austria, Scotland and 13 more places.
1 in 344 girls born in England and Wales in 2025
Ontario 31stSwitzerland 61stEngland and Wales 62nd
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Every place
In 29 of the 40 official lists, among them Ontario (31st), Switzerland (61st) and England and Wales (62nd).
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| Place | Rank | Girls | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario province | 31st 2024 | 223 | about 1 in 244 |
| New South Wales state | 38th 2025 | 158 | rank only |
| New Zealand | 52nd 2025 | 66 | rank only |
| Switzerland | 61st 2025 | 105 | 1 in 324 |
| England and Wales | 62nd 2025 | 736 | 1 in 344 |
| Queensland state | 63rd 2025 | 82 | rank only |
| Victoria state | 70th 2025 | 90 | rank only |
| Quebec province | 71st 2025 | 75 | about 1 in 347 |
| South Australia state | 73rd 2025 | 22 | rank only |
| Sweden | 89th 2025 | 113 | about 1 in 355 |
| Munich city | 91st 2025 | 15 | about 1 in 279 |
| British Columbia province | 98th 2023 | 29 | about 1 in 412 |
| Slovenia | 122nd 2025 | 13 | about 1 in 508 |
| Austria | 123rd 2025 | 51 | 1 in 700 |
| Scotland | 129th 2025 | 35 | 1 in 511 |
| Norway | 130th 2025 | 42 | 1 in 519 |
| The Netherlands | 133rd 2025 | 112 | about 1 in 545 |
| Northern Ireland | 140th 2025 | 14 | 1 in 520 |
| Berlin city | 159th 2023 | 20 | about 1 in 725 |
| Ireland | 173rd 2025 | 27 | 1 in 782 |
| Israel אליענה | 185th 2024 | 144 | about 1 in 545 |
| France | 213th 2025 | 310 | 1 in 925 |
| Cologne city | 217th 2023 | 5 | about 1 in 1,229 |
| Poland | 221st 2025 | 31 | 1 in 3,864 |
| Italy | 290th 2024 | 57 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Catalonia region | 463rd 2025 | 6 | 1 in 3,212 |
| Bonn city | 43rd 2025 | 12 | about 1 in 251 |
| Leipzig city | 156th 2025 | 3 | about 1 in 875 |
| Rostock city | 166th 2025 | 1 | about 1 in 985 |
Rare, below the listed names: Spain and Hungary.
Not in a short top list, so no figure: Nova Scotia (top 21), Denmark (top 50), Finland (top 50), Iceland (top 10), Estonia (top 25), Moscow (top 61), Turkey (top 30), Argentina (top 20) and Croatia (top 50).
Germany publishes no national statistics on first names. German figures here are city lists (Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, Leipzig, Rostock), never the country.
Israel publishes names in Hebrew script. The Latin spelling shown is our transliteration; the published form is shown beside it.
Sources: Ontario Office of the Registrar General (Ontario Data Catalogue) (Ontario); NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages (Data.NSW) (New South Wales); Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), SmartStart (New Zealand); Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) / Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS) (Switzerland); Office for National Statistics (England and Wales); Queensland Registry of BDM (Qld Open Data Portal) (Queensland); Registry of BDM Victoria (DataVic) (Victoria); Retraite Québec (Banque de prénoms, Données Québec) (Quebec); SA Attorney-General's Department, Births, Deaths and Marriages (data.sa.gov.au) (South Australia); Skatteverket (Swedish Tax Agency) (Sweden); Landeshauptstadt München, Statistisches Amt (opendata.muenchen.de) (Munich); BC Vital Statistics Agency (BC Data Catalogue) (British Columbia); Statistični urad Republike Slovenije (SURS), SiStat (Slovenia); Statistik Austria (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1) (Austria); National Records of Scotland (Scotland); Statistics Norway (SSB) (Norway); Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) (the Netherlands); NISRA (Northern Ireland); BerlinOnline GmbH; Landesamt für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO) / Standesämter (Berlin); Central Statistics Office (CSO) (Ireland); Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel) (Israel); INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (France); Stadt Köln, Standesamt (offenedaten-koeln.de) (Cologne); Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL (dane.gov.pl) (Poland); ISTAT, Contanomi (Italy); Idescat (Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya) (Catalonia); Bundesstadt Bonn, Standesamt (opendata.bonn.de) (Bonn); Stadt Leipzig, Standesamt (opendata.leipzig.de) (Leipzig); Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock (opendata-hro.de) (Rostock). How we count, and every source
About the name
Eliana comes from the Hebrew Eli'ana, a name that carries a short statement of faith: 'my God has answered'. It is built from el, 'God', the ending -i, 'my', and ana, 'answered'.
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el-ee-AH-nuh has four syllables, with the stress on the third, which gives it a flowing, musical rhythm. Eli is an obvious short form. Elíana and Elianna are other spellings, and Eliane and Elina are close relatives.
Eliana is rising almost everywhere, in more than twenty countries and falling in none. It is in the top forty in Ontario and New South Wales, and it ranks in New Zealand, Switzerland and Sweden as well. In France it reached its highest point yet in 2025, so its popularity is still climbing.
Meaning, origin, pronunciation
- Pronounced
- el-ee-AH-nuh, 4 syllables
- Meaning
my God has answered
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Other spellings
- Elina
- Eliane
- Aliana
- Eljana
- Yelena
- Elana
- Elianna
Counted together here: Elíana.
Etymology
From Hebrew Eli'ana; the Hebrew entry analyses it as theophoric: el "god" + -i "my" + ana "answered".
From the Wiktionary entry, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened.
Over time
Over five years: rising in 23 of 24 regions, falling in none.
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Rank in each place since 1996; higher on the chart is more popular.
Ten years of ranks
Her rank each year, English-speaking regions first. A blank means no published rank for her that year.
| Region | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales | 254 | 231 | 203 | 231 | 202 | 189 | 180 | 155 | 116 | 62 |
| Scotland | 413 | 446 | 449 | 248 | 276 | 274 | 248 | 263 | 193 | 129 |
| Northern Ireland | 306 | 296 | 361 | 213 | 228 | 237 | 354 | 212 | 140 | |
| Ireland | 302 | 471 | 411 | 347 | 375 | 430 | 284 | 262 | 631 | 173 |
| Ontario | 110 | 95 | 76 | 72 | 64 | 63 | 52 | 58 | 31 | |
| British Columbia | 120 | 118 | 102 | 115 | 89 | 85 | 84 | 98 | ||
| New South Wales | 100 | 80 | 67 | 78 | 75 | 48 | 38 | |||
| Victoria | 91 | 96 | 70 | 70 | ||||||
| Queensland | 98 | 63 | ||||||||
| South Australia | 202 | 135 | 90 | 71 | 71 | 73 | ||||
| New Zealand | 83 | 95 | 70 | 52 | ||||||
| Quebec | 166 | 180 | 122 | 133 | 108 | 101 | 78 | 75 | 80 | 71 |
| France | 333 | 260 | 294 | 354 | 392 | 333 | 337 | 318 | 285 | 213 |
| The Netherlands | 465 | 465 | 429 | 348 | 288 | 353 | 228 | 226 | 133 | |
| Austria | 416 | 433 | 302 | 209 | 297 | 228 | 214 | 216 | 133 | 123 |
| Switzerland | 154 | 176 | 128 | 156 | 133 | 129 | 106 | 100 | 106 | 61 |
| Berlin | 386 | 345 | 223 | 277 | 222 | 179 | 136 | 159 | ||
| Munich | 232 | 206 | 172 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 91 | |||
| Cologne | 470 | 288 | 254 | 154 | 181 | 223 | 183 | 217 | ||
| Bonn | 119 | 134 | 359 | 102 | 117 | 98 | 87 | 136 | 362 | 43 |
| Leipzig | 411 | 411 | 243 | 265 | 254 | 112 | 117 | 156 | ||
| Rostock | 283 | 228 | 199 | 187 | 174 | 158 | 166 | |||
| Norway | 274 | 249 | 229 | 157 | 193 | 212 | 144 | 140 | 165 | 130 |
| Sweden | 269 | 264 | 288 | 178 | 182 | 211 | 182 | 184 | 141 | 89 |
| Iceland | 161 | |||||||||
| Catalonia | 498 | 615 | 620 | 610 | 522 | 463 | ||||
| Italy | 267 | 301 | 328 | 349 | 274 | 290 | ||||
| Poland | 377 | 283 | 317 | 298 | 322 | 279 | 304 | 274 | 213 | 221 |
| Slovenia | 221 | 223 | 122 | |||||||
| Israel | 233 | 269 | 267 | 232 | 232 | 248 | 224 | 214 | 185 |
England and Wales, 1996 to 2025
| Year | Rank | Girls | per 100,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62 | 736 | 290.6 |
| 2024 | 116 | 416 | 161.2 |
| 2023 | 155 | 326 | 127.1 |
| 2022 | 180 | 284 | 107.8 |
| 2021 | 189 | 270 | 98.5 |
| 2020 | 202 | 245 | 91.3 |
| 2019 | 231 | 216 | 77.1 |
| 2018 | 203 | 256 | 88.8 |
| 2017 | 231 | 217 | 72.6 |
| 2016 | 254 | 200 | 65.1 |
| 2015 | 249 | 198 | 64.3 |
| 2014 | 267 | 179 | 58.4 |
| 2013 | 276 | 171 | 55.4 |
| 2012 | 364 | 132 | 41.0 |
| 2011 | 352 | 136 | 42.3 |
| 2010 | 414 | 106 | 33.0 |
| 2009 | 471 | 87 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 537 | 71 | 22.5 |
| 2007 | 589 | 61 | 19.9 |
| 2006 | 678 | 46 | 15.4 |
| 2005 | 668 | 46 | 16.0 |
| 2004 | 985 | 25 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 712 | 39 | 14.0 |
| 2002 | 761 | 33 | 12.3 |
| 2001 | 1025 | 20 | 7.5 |
| 2000 | 1095 | 18 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 1060 | 19 | 6.7 |
| 1998 | 1319 | 14 | 4.8 |
| 1997 | 1287 | 14 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 1522 | 11 | 3.7 |
Sources: Office for National Statistics (1996-2025), OGL v3.
France since 1925
Half of the babies named Eliana in France since 1925 were born in or after 2017. First recorded in 1925. Her peak year there: 2025, at 108.1 per 100,000 girls.
Babies named Eliana per 100,000 girls born in France, by five-year period.
Sources: INSEE, Fichier des prénoms (édition 2025) (1900-2025), Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Sister names for Eliana
1 in 202 in Northern Ireland
Rose and fell with Eliana. Same first letter as Eliana.
1 in 1,491 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Eliana.
Similar forms, not dealt separately: Aliya.
1 in 778 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Eliana.
Similar forms, not dealt separately: Gabriela.
1 in 132 in Scotland
1 in 2,347 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Eliana.
1 in 754 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Eliana.
1 in 778 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Eliana.
1 in 1,112 in Ireland
Rose and fell with Eliana.
1 in 307 in England and Wales
Rose and fell with Eliana.
1 in 436 in Scotland
Rose and fell with Eliana.
Middle names for Eliana
1 in 107 in Northern Ireland
Eliana Charlotte
4-2 beats · initials EC
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 86 in Ireland
Eliana Sophie
4-2 beats · initials ES
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 57 in Northern Ireland
Eliana Grace
4-1 beats · initials EG
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 311 in Ireland
Eliana Maria
4-3 beats · initials EM
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 3 syllables.
1 in 102 in Ireland
Eliana Mia
4-2 beats · initials EM
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 132 in Northern Ireland
Eliana Ruby
4-2 beats · initials ER
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 2 syllables.
1 in 214 in Northern Ireland
Eliana Rose
4-1 beats · initials ER
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 1 syllable.
1 in 491 in Ireland
Eliana Julia
4-3 beats · initials EJ
Changes the beat after Eliana: 4 syllables, then 3 syllables.
Same style as Eliana
Names whose popularity rose and fell with hers across regions and decades.
1 in 132 in Scotland
95% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
1 in 189 in Ireland
95% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
1 in 188 in Scotland
94% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
1 in 330 in Ireland
94% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
1 in 1,025 in England and Wales
94% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
1 in 587 in Ireland
93% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
1 in 307 in England and Wales
93% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
1 in 606 in England and Wales
93% alike: moves with Eliana across countries and decades.
Questions about Eliana
5 questions, on how popular she is, what it means, how to say it, whether she is rising and sister names.
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How popular is Eliana?
Her best rank is No. 31 in Ontario in 2024, about 1 in 244 girls. She is in the published lists of 29 of our 40 regions.
What does Eliana mean?
Wiktionary glosses Eliana as "my God has answered".
How do you pronounce Eliana?
el-ee-AH-nuh, with 4 syllables.
Is Eliana getting more popular?
Over five years: rising in 23 of 24 regions, falling in none.
Which sister names go with Eliana?
The deck's top five sisters for Eliana: Eden, Aliyah, Gabriella, Maya and Livia. Each is scored on style, era, popularity and origin, with sound clashes flagged.