Lilah — #179 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Lilah

The Social Security Administration has registered 22,916 babies named Lilah between 1884 and 2024, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lilah currently holds the #179 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,685 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lilah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 10,750 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lilah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 2,505 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lilah in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lilah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 22,916 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.