Fun Facts About the Name Leliana
- 329 babies named Leliana: U.S. records list 329 babies given the name Leliana from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Leliana Mean?
Leliana is a feminine given name with no firmly established meaning. The most common explanation treats it as a form of the French Léliane, built on Lélio, the Italian and Portuguese form of the Latin family name Laelius. Laelius was a Roman nomen, the name of the gens Laelia, and its own origin is not known; a long-standing suggestion connects it to Etruscan, but that remains unproven. A second reading treats Leliana as the given name Lelia (the Italian and English form of Laelia) combined with the feminine ending -ana, as in Juliana or Mariana. Both explanations lead back to the same Roman family name, whose literal sense has been lost.
Despite the similar sound, Leliana is not the same name as Liliana, which is usually derived from Latin lilium, "lily."
Leliana Name History & Origins
Forms of the name appear mainly in modern French, Italian, and Romanian use. French has Léliane, and the shorter Lélia appears as the title of George Sand's 1833 novel Lélia; these forms are generally linked to Lélio and the older Laelius. Romanian usage includes Leliana alongside the more common Liliana and Liana, with which it is frequently confused.
In English the name stayed uncommon. It drew wider notice through the character Leliana in the Dragon Age video games, beginning in 2009; that is a recent literary use of a name already current in European languages, not the name's origin.
How Popular is the Name Leliana?
Leliana has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2016. Its best rank was #4,310 in 2016.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,343 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2024 | #6,516 | 18 | 0.0011% |
| 2023 | #6,811 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2022 | #7,487 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2021 | #5,331 | 24 | 0.0015% |
| 2020 | #9,964 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #5,537 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2018 | #4,727 | 29 | 0.0017% |
| 2017 | #4,535 | 31 | 0.0018% |
| 2016 | #4,310 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2015 | #4,357 | 33 | 0.0018% |
| 2014 | #8,319 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2013 | #6,383 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2012 | #10,913 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2011 | #8,937 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2010 | #7,084 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2007 | #19,283 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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