Liliana Explained
Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.[1]
Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
People
- Liliana Abud, Mexican actress in telenovelas and cinema
- Liliana Allen (born 1970), Cuban track and field athlete, competing for Mexico
- Liliana Leah Archibald (1928–2014), English insurance broker
- Liliana Ayalde, American diplomat, former United States ambassador to Brazil
- Liliana Berezowsky (born 1944), Canadian sculptor
- Liliana V. Blum (born 1974), Mexican short story writer
- Liliana Campos (born 1971), Portuguese television presenter and model
- Liliana Castro (born 1979), Ecuadorian-born Brazilian actress
- Liliana Cavani (born 1933), Italian film director and screenwriter
- Liliana Chalá (born 1965), female athlete from Ecuador
- Liliana Díaz Mindurry (born 1953), Argentine writer
- Liliana Delfino, Marxist of Argentina
- Liliana Dobrescu (born 1971), freestyle swimmer from Romania
- Liliana Fellner (born 1957), Argentine Justicialist Party politician
- Liliana Gafencu (born 1975), Romanian rower who has won three Olympic gold medals
- Claudia Liliana González (born 1970), Colombian actress
- Liliana Heker (born 1943), Argentine writer
- Liliana Herrero (born 1948), Argentine musician
- Liliana Kostova, Bulgarian football striker
- Liliana Lewińska (born 2008), Polish rhythmic gymnast
- Liliana Lovell (born 1967), entrepreneur, founder of the Coyote Ugly Saloon and Ugly Inc
- Liliana Lozano (1978–2009), Colombian actress and beauty queen
- Liliana Martinelli (born 1970), female discus thrower from Argentina
- Liliana Mayo (born 1952), Peruvian psychologist and special education teacher
- Liliana Mumy (born 1994), American teen actress and voice actress
- Liliana Năstase (born 1962), Romanian heptathlete
- Liliana Negre de Alonso (born 1954), Argentine politician
- Liliana Olivero (born 1956), member of the provincial legislature in Córdoba Province, Argentina
- Liliana Ortega (born 1965), Venezuelan professor, human rights lawyer and advocate
- Liliana Palihovici (born 1971), Moldovan politician
- Liliana Popescu (born 1982), Romanian middle-distance runner
- Liliana Porter (born 1941), contemporary artist from Argentina
- Liliana Queiroz (born 1985), Portuguese model
- Liliana Rojas-Suarez (born 1954), Peruvian-born economist
- Liliana Ronchetti (1927–1974), Italian basketball player
- LiliAna Rose (born 1984), folk-pop, singer-songwriter from New York City
- Liliana Santos (born 1980), Portuguese actress and model
- Liliana Zagacka (born 1977), Polish triple jumper
Fictional characters
- Liliana Vess, necromancer in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
- Lilliana Hoffman, the main protagonist in
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Meaning, origin and history of the name Liliana.
