# Liane (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/liane/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,879 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,879 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 65, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 14 | 8,780 |
| 2010 | 9 | 11,833 |
| 2011 | 8 | 12,867 |
| 2012 | 11 | 10,125 |
| 2013 | 10 | 10,692 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,602 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,560 |
| 2016 | 7 | 13,743 |
| 2019 | 6 | 14,835 |
| 2020 | 7 | 12,913 |
| 2021 | 9 | 10,768 |
| 2022 | 16 | 7,156 |
| 2023 | 13 | 8,312 |
| 2024 | 9 | 10,742 |
| 2025 | 9 | 10,556 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | 1,434 |
| 1997 | 13 | 1,365 |
| 1998 | 4 | 3,142 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3,409 |
| 2004 | 5 | 3,197 |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2019 | 4 | 4,686 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |

## People named Liane

- Liane de Pougy, French courtesan, dancer and novelist, editor (1869-1950)
- Liane Haid, Actress, singer (1895-2000)
- Liane Moriarty, Australian author
- Liane Augustin, German-Austrian singer
- Liane Zimbler, Austrian-American architect and interior architect (1892–1987)
- Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
- Liane Lippert, German cyclist
- Liane Buhr, East German coxswain
- Liane Russell, American geneticist
- Liane Tooth, Australian field hockey player
- Liane Michaelis, German handball player
- Liane Alexandra Curtis, American actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.