Lillith
Feminine · “of the night”
Lillith respells Lilith, and she is the night — a demon in Mesopotamian and Jewish tradition who became, in one medieval text, Adam's first wife.
How old is the name Lillith?
Lillith first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Lillith is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,100 people named Lillith are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lillith most popular?
Lillith peaked in 2021, reaching #1791 nationally. Today it ranks #1911, 120 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lilitu to Lillith
The story of Lillith
Lilith appears once in Isaiah among the desert creatures, and in Babylonian incantation texts as a demon that threatens women in childbirth. The Alphabet of Ben Sira, a medieval satirical text, made her Adam's first wife who left him for refusing to lie beneath him. Modern readings have taken her up. The name is in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
of the night
From the Hebrew lilit, a night-demon named once in Isaiah 34, from a Mesopotamian lilitu. The resemblance to the Hebrew laylah, 'night', is probably a folk connection rather than the source; the word is Akkadian. Nothing is fully settled.
How the name formed
- lilitu
- lilit
- Lilith
- Lillith
Related forms: לילית · Lilith · Lilitu
Pronouncing Lillith
LIL-ith
Two syllables, stress on the first. Lillith and Lilith are said identically.
Nicknames for Lillith
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1918
- Most girls named
- 2014113 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1791reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- +18.8%101 in 2025, from 85
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lillith in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- לילית in Hebrew — transliteration
- Lilith in English — spelling variant
- Lilitu in Akkadian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Ohio, Tennessee.
Lilliths among us
people named Lillith are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 15,914 born in 2025 was named Lillith
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lillith
- #1911
- Lillith on the 2025 chart
- #259
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lillith went to 101 girls in 2025, but Lilith, Lilyth and Lylith and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 1,252, which makes it the 259th most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,652 places above the chart.
- Lilith1,111
- Lillith101
- Lilyth18
- Lylith14
- Lillyth8
About 1 girl in 1,284 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 15,914 for Lillith itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ysabella test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lillith's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ysabella climbed just as high around 2002, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ysabella's path sketches the road Lillith is walking now.
Lillith sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lillith is headed
Lillith should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lillith beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lillith in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Mesopotamian-to-Hebrew transmission is a genuinely interesting piece of history.
- Lily is available as a softer short form that is fully current.
- The Ben Sira story has been read very differently in different centuries.
- The traditional figure is a demon, and the associations are dark.
- Lilith with one l is the standard spelling.
- The connection to laylah, 'night', is probably folk etymology.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lilliths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Lillith are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lillith?
- Lillith is one of 5 recorded spellings. Lilith is the more common one — 1,111 births in 2025 against 101 for Lillith.
- How popular is the name Lillith in 2025?
- Lillith ranks #1911 among US girl names in 2025, with 101 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lillith?
- About 1 in every 15,914 US girls born in 2025 was named Lillith — 101 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lillith with classmates?
- Lillith will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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