Lilith

What Lilith means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Lilith?

US: Rising: up from #586 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #965 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 1,300 girls got the name (#232 that year). First in the US records in 1913.

How common

• About 1 in 1,447 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,111 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,982 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 AK (4.84 per 1,000 girls), ME (2.89 per 1,000 girls), NM (2.78 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Lilith is #277 in the US and #357 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 Lilith were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lillith101 US · 9 E&W
• Lilyth18 US
• Lylith14 US
• Lillyth8 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 Lilith

Girls

• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Eliza#115Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Eliana#10Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #10 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Eden#70possibly “steppe, garden”^*

For a brother

• Hezekiah#485“Yahu is My Strength”^*
• Ezekiel#61“God strengthens”^*
• Asa#483“physician, doctor, healer”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Avi#832“father”^*
• Judah#178Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #178 vs #404 in 2025

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 Lilith’s. Rank is US 2025.