girls:
3.9k births since 1907
#2779 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1907
#4424 (43rd percentile)
The name Liane is the #4,424 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,861 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 42.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,779 (51.4% percentile) for all time with 3,861 births since 1907.
Liane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (first recorded for girls in 1907). Birth data for Liane is available in 97 out of the 117 years between 1907 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Liane reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 15.5% percentile (ranked #648) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 69 births per million (ranked 15.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Liane ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 10.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Liane".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Liane. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.1% confident that Liane is pronounced as lee-AN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-an, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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