Baby name

FADING GIRL · LATIN-ITALIAN
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Liana

/lee · AH · nah/


“Climbing vine”

From the Latin liana meaning climbing vine, or a blend of Lia and Ana; associated with tropical abundance and used across Romance-language cultures.

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warm

How it ages.

Soft and genuinely pretty; ages better than most feminine coinages because of the Latin root.

The cultural moment.

Popular in Italy and Romania throughout the 1990s-2010s; still in use, gently declining.