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Ilana - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Ilana
 
 


The girl name Ilana [ syll. i-la-na, il-ana ] is pronounced IYLAENah KEY. Ilana has its origins in the Hebrew language and it is also used largely in Hebrew. Derived from the word ilan with the meaning 'tree'. It represents the transferred use of the vocabulary word as a given name. Ilana is the feminine version of the Hebrew Ilan.

Ilana is not often used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Ilana include the Finnish, German, and Hungarian Ilona, the Romanian Ileana, the English and German Iliana, the English, Hungarian, and Latvian Ilma, and the English Elaine.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Ilana: IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


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