Lilah

What Lilah means

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

Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lilah?

US: Rising: up from #314 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #273 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,736 girls got the name (#179 that year). First in the US records in 1884.

How common

• About 1 in 926 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 546 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 407 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 VT (7.19 per 1,000 girls), WV (3.35 per 1,000 girls), ME (3.21 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lilah is #179 in the US and #99 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 Lilah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lily6,673 US · 2,249 E&W
• Lyla3,089 US · 751 E&W
• Lila1,670 US · 277 E&W
• Lola1,132 US · 524 E&W
• Lilly1,218 US · 382 E&W
• Leila1,193 US · 171 E&W
• Laila755 US · 151 E&W
• Lylah503 US · 85 E&W

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 Lilah

Girls

• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Hadassah#569“myrtle”^*
• Delilah#51Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #115 in 2015, #51 in 2025
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel

For a brother

• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025
• Asher#28Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #28 vs #150 in 2025
• Nehemiah#429“consolation of Yahweh”^*

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