Ilyana is a spelling of Iliana or Ileana, the Romanian and Spanish forms of Helen, a Greek name usually explained as "torch" or "light". Some parents instead hear Eliana in it, the Hebrew name read as "my God has answered". In the United States Ilyana has hovered between number 2400 and 3000 for a decade and reached its best rank yet, number 2342, in 2025.