Biljana

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Bilyana in BG Bulgaria, ES Spain, AU Australia and 2 more, Biliana in TR Türkiye, UA Ukraine, Билјана in MK North Macedonia and Биляна in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Biljana is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name890 records spelled Biljana2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

  Also written Bilǰana

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Biljana is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Билјана (Biljana)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 71 years between 1933–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Biljana Plavšićb. 1930BApresident of Republika Srpska (1996-1998)
• Biljana Jovanovićb. 1953RSSerbian author, peace activist and feminist
• Bilja Krstićb. 1955RSnot in their usual nameSerbian singer
• Biljana Majstorovićb. 1959RSOlympic medalist in basketball
• Biljana Srbljanovićb. 1970RSSerbian playwright
• Biljana Borzanb. 1971HRCroatian politician
• Biljana Topićb. 1977RSSerbian athletics competitor
• Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrovab. 1978BGBulgarian tennis player
• Biljana Bandelierb. 1986RSSerbian handball player
• Biljana Pavićevićb. 1988MEMontenegrin handball player

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 168 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Biljana?

We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Biljana (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Biljana have the most bearers?

Biljana is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled biljana.

Where is Biljana most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Biljana is densest in North Macedonia — about 1 in 196 people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Biljana compared with other names?

In Serbia, Biljana is the 35th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Biljana a male or female name?

Biljana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Biljana mean?

Recorded meaning: Biljana är ett sydslaviskt namn som kommer från ordet biljka ’ört, växt’.