Lilith
#277 for girls in 2025, 1,111 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 1,300 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,534since 1913
Lilith over time
Rank among girls' names. Lilith has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #277 | 1,111 |
| 2024 | #255 | 1,252 |
| 2023 | #232 | 1,300 |
| 2022 | #269 | 1,182 |
| 2021 | #268 | 1,165 |
| 2020 | #316 | 1,007 |
| 2019 | #402 | 771 |
| 2018 | #519 | 604 |
| 2017 | #488 | 639 |
| 2016 | #534 | 584 |
| 2015 | #586 | 515 |
| 2014 | #630 | 453 |
| 2013 | #828 | 323 |
| 2012 | #823 | 327 |
| 2011 | #922 | 282 |
| 2010 | #991 | 254 |
| 2009 | #1,146 | 221 |
| 2008 | #1,320 | 187 |
| 2007 | #1,459 | 160 |
| 2006 | #1,597 | 134 |
| 2005 | #1,565 | 130 |
| 2004 | #1,684 | 115 |
| 2003 | #1,652 | 116 |
| 2002 | #1,750 | 103 |
| 2001 | #1,807 | 98 |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 |
| 1999 | #1,786 | 89 |
| 1998 | #2,244 | 63 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
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| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
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| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
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| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
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| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
| 1921 | #3,666 | 8 |
| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 |
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 |
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| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lilith! It came in at #2,827, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lilith is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#93 · 1 in 406
- New Mexico#130 · 1 in 468
- Maine#152 · 1 in 456
- Oregon#153 · 1 in 595
- Oklahoma#160 · 1 in 642
Best ever in a state: #70 in Alaska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | #93 | 24 | 1 in 406 |
| New Mexico | #130 | 11 | 1 in 468 |
| Maine | #152 | 7 | 1 in 456 |
| Oregon | #153 | 22 | 1 in 595 |
| Oklahoma | #160 | 23 | 1 in 642 |
| Arkansas | #168 | 16 | 1 in 646 |
| Kentucky | #174 | 25 | 1 in 676 |
| New Hampshire | #183 | 6 | 1 in 577 |
| Arizona | #184 | 33 | 1 in 838 |
| North Carolina | #201 | 48 | 1 in 909 |
| West Virginia | #203 | 8 | 1 in 681 |
| Missouri | #216 | 28 | 1 in 874 |
| Idaho | #224 | 8 | 1 in 764 |
| Colorado | #238 | 23 | 1 in 937 |
| Indiana | #249 | 28 | 1 in 1,001 |
| Ohio | #249 | 46 | 1 in 1,041 |
| Tennessee | #256 | 28 | 1 in 1,085 |
| Florida | #258 | 67 | 1 in 1,201 |
| Washington | #258 | 27 | 1 in 1,079 |
| Utah | #268 | 15 | 1 in 1,074 |
| Iowa | #284 | 11 | 1 in 1,047 |
| Michigan | #297 | 31 | 1 in 1,221 |
| Maryland | #311 | 18 | 1 in 1,240 |
| Texas | #319 | 100 | 1 in 1,529 |
| South Carolina | #328 | 14 | 1 in 1,236 |
| Wisconsin | #350 | 15 | 1 in 1,385 |
| Pennsylvania | #354 | 31 | 1 in 1,560 |
| Kansas | #357 | 9 | 1 in 1,272 |
| Illinois | #358 | 31 | 1 in 1,573 |
| Virginia | #363 | 22 | 1 in 1,552 |
| Louisiana | #382 | 13 | 1 in 1,423 |
| Alabama | #399 | 12 | 1 in 1,559 |
| Nebraska | #402 | 5 | 1 in 1,422 |
| California | #404 | 88 | 1 in 1,980 |
| Georgia | #455 | 23 | 1 in 1,934 |
| Minnesota | #466 | 11 | 1 in 1,969 |
| New York | #569 | 29 | 1 in 2,744 |
| New Jersey | #576 | 13 | 1 in 2,680 |
| Massachusetts | #580 | 8 | 1 in 2,983 |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lilith
- 22 spots since 2024 (#255 → #277)
- 39 spots since 2020 (#316 → #277)
- 309 spots since 2015 (#586 → #277)
- Biggest jump: 198 spots in 2014 (#828 → #630)
- Biggest drop: 31 spots in 2018 (#488 → #519)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2023 at #232 (1,300 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,234 girls born in 2023 were named Lilith (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,447 girls born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 51.8% of all girls named Lilith (7,017) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 35 | #2,827 (1913) | #3,826 |
| 1920s | 23 | #3,340 (1920) | #3,817 |
| 1930s | 9 | #3,055 (1930) | #3,055 |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,622 (1942) | #4,622 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 26 | #4,866 (1966) | #5,745 |
| 1970s | 41 | #5,543 (1971) | #7,201 |
| 1980s | 17 | #8,318 (1985) | #10,668 |
| 1990s | 256 | #1,786 (1999) | #6,329 |
| 2000s | 1,353 | #1,146 (2009) | #1,588 |
| 2010s | 4,752 | #402 (2019) | #672 |
| 2020s | 7,017 | #232 (2023) | #270 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lilith in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 1,605 of them was named Lilith, which outranked 98.2% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.