Liana

Liana developed largely as a truncated form of Latinate names such as Juliana, Liliana, and Eliana, while also sharing a spelling with the French botanical term for climbing vines. The name entered the American registry in 1929. It spent decades quietly in the background before finding traction in a twenty-first-century trend toward multi-vowel, three-syllable girl names.

The name reads as distinctly young. With over seventy percent of all living bearers belonging to Gen Z or Gen Alpha, it rarely brings to mind rotary phones or pensions. It registers as smooth, light, and modern. Most people picture someone who has never had to explain what a flash drive is.