Lilah

Where Lilah comes from

Short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lilah
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #851 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1970
    Lilah Sturges born
    American comics writer
  3. 1999
    Lilah Fear born
    British ice dancer
  4. 2025
    Peak, #179
    1,736 babies named Lilah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Lilah Fear · British ice dancer, born 1999
  • Lilah Sturges · American comics writer, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.