Delilah

What Delilah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Delilah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Delilah?

US: Rising: up from #115 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #166 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 4,254 girls got the name (#50 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 389 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 215 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 484 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (6.5 per 1,000 girls), WY (6.17 per 1,000 girls), AK (6.05 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Delilah is #51 in the US and #32 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Delilah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

Wiktionary only lists the UK pronunciation so far.

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Dalilah197 US · 6 E&W
• Dalila139 US
• Delylah66 US
• Delila45 US · 5 E&W
• Dalylah27 US
• Delyla19 US · 3 E&W
• Delailah8 US
• Dahlilah8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Delilah

Girls

• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Ari#393“lion”^*
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Eden#544possibly “steppe, garden”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Delilah’s. Rank is US 2025.