Eliana Assyrian/Akkadian, אֱלִיעָנָה ( Hebrew), Ηλιάνα ( Greek), إليانا ( Arabic), is a female given name found with that spelling in Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Origin & meaning

Many sources derive it from via Hebrew, from

Akkadian Akkadian or Accadian may refer to: * Akkadians, inhabitants of the Akkadian Empire * Akkadian language, an extinct Eastern Semitic language * Akkadian literature, literature in this language * Akkadian cuneiform Cuneiform is a logo- syllabi ...

Assyrian Assyrian may refer to: * Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia. * Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire. ** Early Assyrian Period ** Old Assyrian Period ** Middle Assyrian Empire ** Neo-Assyrian Empire * Assyrian ...

, literally translated as "My God has answered me."
ELIANA is from the Aramaic and Hebrew words, meaning MY GOD HAS ANSWERED ( Alfred J. Kolatch, Kolatch, Alfred J. 1994. The New Name Dictionary - Modern English and Hebrew Names. Middle Village: Jonathan David. 110) It is composed of three Hebrew elements: '' EL'', meaning GOD; ''ANA'', meaning ANSWERED; and the Yud, located after ''EL'', indicating first person possession.
ELIANAH is composed of three Hebrew elements. ELI, meaning GOD (Alcalay, R. The Complete Hebrew English Dictionary. Jerusalem: Massada. 90); ANAH, meaning ANSWERED (Alcalay, R. The Complete Hebrew English Dictionary. Jerusalem: Massada. 1925); and the Yud, located after EL, indicating first person possession. Biblical sources: "And he erected there an altar, and called it El- odelohe-Israel l, the God of the Patriarch Israel (). "And Efron answered

nah Nah or NAH may refer to: Places * Naha Airport (Indonesia) (IATA airport code: NAH), Tahuna, Sangir Islands, North Sulawesi, Indonesia * Nehbandan or Nah, a city in South Khorasan Province, Iran Other uses * NaH, the chemical formula of sodium h ...

Abraham, saying unto him," (). It can also be derived from the Late Latin Aeliāna, the feminine form of the Latin family name Aeliānus (of the sun), which is derived from the Greek hēlios ( sun).
Norman, Teresa. A World of Baby Names. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2003. 460. Moreover, it is related to the Greek name Helene (name), Helene, and would thus be one of the many forms derived from that Greek name, such as Elaine from Old French. Some variants include Iliana,

Ileana Ileana (also Illeana, Iliana, Eleana, Eliana) is a female given name. It is the feminine form of the male name Elijah. It has been adapted for Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Italian and Spanish (in Spanish there is also Ilean and in Romanian Il ...

, and Eleana. In Arabic, it is translated as "the Bright" .

Popularity

In the United States, Eliana first appeared on the charts in the 1990s, spurred by the momentum of popular names like Ella, and Anna. In recent years Eliana has become an even more popular name, ranking in the top 1,000 female names for the past sixteen years. Most recently, it ranked the 93rd most popular name used by females in the United States for 2016, according to the Social Security Administration, breaking into the top 100 most popular girls' names for the first time. Popularity of the female name Eliana in the United States. Note: Rank 1 is the most popular, rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth. Name data are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States.

Notable people with the name

Eliana Aleixo Eliana Maria Nagib Aleixo (born 13 July 1954) is a Brazilian former volleyball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, ...

, Brazilian volleyball player *

Eliana Alexander Eliana Alexander is a Mexican actress. She portrayed the role of Rita Thomas on My Network TV's ''Desire.'' Filmography * Agenda (2007) .... Magdalena Linney * ''Desire'' (2006) .... Rita Thomas * Madam Marina (2005) .... Marina * '' Ley de ...

, Mexican actress *

Eliana Benador Eliana Benador (also Eleana Benador) is a Swiss-American public relations consultant, global strategist, and a publicist for American and Middle Eastern neo-conservatives.Lobe, Jim''The Andean Condor among the Hawks’' Asian Times, August 15, 200 ...

, Swiss-American consultant *

Eliana Michaelichin Bezerra Eliana Michaelichen Bezerra (born November 22, 1972), known mononymously as Eliana, is a Brazilian TV host, businesswoman, and former singer. Since 2009, she has been the host of the TV show ''Eliana'' which is broadcast on the Brazilian TV net ...

, Brazilian actress *

Eliana Bórmida Eliana Bórmida (born 29 July 1946) is an Argentine architect, co-owner of the Bórmida & Yanzón studio, based in Mendoza, Argentina and specializing in wine cellars. Since 1988 the studio has worked on projects for more than 30 wineries, which ha ...

, Argentine architect *

Eliana Cardoso Eliana Anastasia Cardoso (born 28 February 1944) is a professor of economics at the São Paulo School of Economics. She worked at both the World Bank and the IMF. She holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a master ...

, Brazilian professor *

Eliana Chávez Eliana Chávez Valencia (born 28 December 1997) is a Colombian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. She won a gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 South American Games The 2018 South American Games was a multi-sport event ...

, Colombian sprinter *

Eliana Cuevas Eliana Cuevas is a Canadian jazz singer, whose music blends jazz with Latin music.Eliana Falco Eliana Falco (born 21 July 1987) is a team handball player from Uruguay. She plays on the Uruguay women's national handball team, and participated at the 2005 World Women's Handball Championship in Russia and the 2011 World Women's Handball Cha ...

, Uruguayan handball player * Eliana La Ferrara, Italian economist *

Eliana Gaete Eliana Gaete Lazo (born 14 April 1932) is a retired track and field athlete from Chile. She earned gold medals in women's 80m hurdles at the 1951 and 1955 Pan American Games. She was born in Antofagasta Antofagasta () is a port city in n ...

, Chilean track and field athlete *

Eliana Gil Eliana Gil (born 24 April 1948), is a lecturer, writer, and clinician of marriage, family and child. She is on the board of a number of professional counselling organizations that use play and art therapies, and she is the former president of the ...

, Ecuadoran clinician *

Eliana González Eliana González (born 1 June 1969) is a Peruvian table tennis player. She competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics. References

1969 births Living people Peruvian female table tennis players Olympic table tenni ...

, Peruvian table tennis player *

Eliana Gropman Eliana Gropman (born February 5, 2001) is an American ice dancer. With her former skating partner, Ian Somerville, she is the 2019 U.S. national junior bronze medalist and the 2018 JGP Slovakia bronze medalist. They placed in the top twelve at t ...

, American ice dancer *

Eliana Johnson Eliana Yael Johnson (born c. 1984) is an American journalist and Editor-in-Chief of ''Washington Free Beacon''. Early life and education Johnson is the daughter of Sally (née Zusman) and Scott W. Johnson, one of the three Dartmouth lawyers w ...

, American journalist *

Eliana Jones Eliana Jones (born October 28, 1997) is a Canadian actress. She first came to attention as the younger version of the Alex character on ''Nikita'' (2010–2012), and in the recurring role of Alexa Sworn, one of the twin daughters of the sheriff ...

, Canadian actress *

Eliana Krawczyk Eliana María Krawczyk (5 March 1982 – 15 November 2017) was an Officer (armed forces), officer of the Argentine Navy. She was among the 44 crew members of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan (S-42), ARA ''San Juan'' when it sank on 15 Novemb ...

, Argentine naval officer *

Eliana García Laguna Eliana García Laguna (born 21 February 1958) is a Mexican politician and member of civil society organizations. As of 2003 she served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress The LIX Legislature of the Congress of Mexico met ...

, Mexican politician *

Eliana Pintor Marin Eliana Assyrian/Akkadian, אֱלִיעָנָה (Hebrew), Ηλιάνα (Greek), إليانا (Arabic), is a female given name found with that spelling in Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Origin & meaning Many sources derive it from via He ...

, American politician * Eliana Mason, American goalball player *

Eliana Menassé Eliana Menassé is a List of Mexican artists, Mexican painter and member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, an honor society for Mexican artists. Life Menassé was born in New York, but has lived in Mexico since she was two years old and cons ...

, Mexican painter *

Eliana Navarro Eliana Navarro Barahona (19 June 1920 – 5 June 2006) was a Chilean poet. Her poetry was praised from an early date by literary critic Hernán Díaz Arrieta. Her poetry has been studied in various Chilean and foreign universities and her work ap ...

, Chilean poet *

Eliana Paco Paredes Eliana Paco Paredes (born c.1982) is an indigenous Aymara people, Aymara Bolivian fashion designer from La Paz. In 2016, after exhibiting her cholo, chola designs at the Bolivia Fashion Week in June, she achieved recognition in New York City, part ...

, Bolivian fashion designer *

Eliana Pittman Eliana Pittman (born Eliana Leite Da Silva; August 14, 1945), is a Brazilian former singer and actress. Pittman was one of the more soulful singers of the early 1970s. The stepdaughter of the jazz saxophonist Booker Pittman, she was deeply infl ...

, Brazilian singer and actress * Eliana Printes, Brazilian singer and composer * Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan fashion model *

Eliana Riggio Eliana Riggio, also known as Eliana Riggio Chaudhuri, is an Italian UN official, humanitarian and author. She worked for UNICEF in India for ten years, coordinating field projects in urban areas, helping to develop city plans which focused on basic ...

, Italian UN official and author *

Eliana Rubashkyn Eliana Rubashkyn (; ), (born 25 June 1988) is a New Zealand pharmacist and chemist, known for being the first intersex person assigned male at birth legally recognised as a woman with a UN mechanism under the international refugee statute. Born ...

, Colombian-born New Zealander LGBTI activist *

Eliana Stábile Eliana Noemí Stábile (born 26 November 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Brazilian Série A1 club Santos FC and the Argentina women's national team. She is not related to Argentinian football legend ...

, Argentine footballer *

Eliana Tomkins Eliana Tomkins is a British jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Ag ...

, British musician *

Eliana Tranchesi Eliana Maria Piva de Albuquerque Tranchesi (November 24, 1955 - February 24, 2012) was a Brazilian entrepreneur and owner of Daslu, a fashion house, located in São Paulo that specializes in international brands. She brought to Brazilian stores the ...

, Brazilian entrepreneur

Other uses

Places

* L'Eliana, a municipality in the province of Valencia, Spain

Ships

* SS Santa Eliana, previously the

SS Mayaguez SS ''Mayaguez '' was a U.S.-flagged container ship that attained notoriety for its 12 May 1975 seizure by Khmer Rouge forces of Cambodia, which resulted in a confrontation with the United States at the close of the Vietnam War. Service histo ...

Media

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Eliana Eliana Assyrian/Akkadian, אֱלִיעָנָה (Hebrew), Ηλιάνα (Greek), إليانا (Arabic), is a female given name found with that spelling in Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Origin & meaning Many sources derive it from via He ...

'', the romantic novel by

Samuel Pordage Samuel Pordage (1633 – c. 1691) was a 17th-century English poet. He is best known by his '' Azaria and Hushai'' (1682), a reply to John Dryden's ''Absalom and Achitophel''. Life Samuel was the eldest son of John Pordage, a clergyman from Bradfi ...

; * '' Eliana, Eliana'', an Indonesian film directed by

Riri Riza Riri may refer to: People *Riri Fitri Sari (born 1970) computer engineering professor * Riri Riza (born 1970) Indonesian filmmaker *Rihanna (born 1988; as ''Robyn Rihanna Fenty'') Barbadian singer; nicknamed "RiRi" *Riri (Japanese singer) (born 19 ...

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