Iliana is from the Greek Iliana — feminine form related to Ilios (Ilion / Troy) + Helene (Helen). A modern American baby name in the broader Greek-Spanish heritage aesthetic. Iliana evokes the foundational Helen of Troy + the Iliad (Homer's foundational c. 8th c. BCE epic of the Trojan War) — central to the foundational Greek mythological cycle. The name also serves as a foundational Spanish + Latin American feminine name. Notable bearers: Iliana Vargas Pacheco — Mexican foundational filmmaker; Iliana Ros-Lehtinen (born 1952) — foundational Cuban-American politician + first Hispanic woman elected to the U.S. Congress (1989-2019) — represented Florida's 27th district + Republican Conference Chair. Foundational Greek-Latin American feminine name reflecting both classical heritage + modern Hispanic-American political achievement.
Featured throughout Greek and Spanish heritage.
Iliana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iliana reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.