Lilah
Lilah was given to 1,736 girls in 2025, #179 among girls’ names; 24,664 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,500 Americans named Lilah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Lilah came back: it left the girls’ top 1,000 after 1913 and returned in 2006.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lilah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lilah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lilah is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lilah?
#179 among girls’ names, 2025
Lilah rose from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.58 to 1.1 per 1,000.
1,736 babies in 2025, the peak
Lilah peaked in 2025, when 1,736 girls were given it, #179 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,690 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,736 | #179 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,690 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,503 | #198 | 0.94 |
| 2022 | 1,364 | #220 | 0.83 |
| 2021 | 1,250 | #244 | 0.76 |
| 2020 | 1,258 | #240 | 0.78 |
| 2019 | 1,153 | #288 | 0.69 |
| 2018 | 1,155 | #287 | 0.68 |
| 2017 | 1,177 | #272 | 0.68 |
| 2016 | 1,093 | #299 | 0.62 |
Every recorded year (137)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,032 | #314 | 0.58 |
| 2014 | 1,051 | #316 | 0.59 |
| 2013 | 1,049 | #305 | 0.60 |
| 2012 | 1,032 | #311 | 0.59 |
| 2011 | 1,046 | #306 | 0.59 |
| 2010 | 964 | #336 | 0.54 |
| 2009 | 885 | #366 | 0.48 |
| 2008 | 774 | #416 | 0.41 |
| 2007 | 525 | #572 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 308 | #868 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 223 | #1,071 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 167 | #1,284 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 162 | #1,287 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,437 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,706 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,873 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,189 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,820 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,765 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,189 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,127 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,182 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,343 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,310 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,722 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,422 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,774 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,495 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,586 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,449 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,367 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,564 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,386 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,452 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,120 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,744 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,608 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,162 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,095 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,890 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,582 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,050 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,941 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,096 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,418 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,366 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,408 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,148 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,613 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,935 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,185 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,328 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,483 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,853 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,619 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,487 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,586 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,236 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,544 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,260 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,375 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,917 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,778 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,869 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,679 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 21 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,388 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,657 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,244 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,482 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,950 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,159 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,513 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 23 | #1,756 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,851 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 35 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,525 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 41 | #1,214 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 34 | #1,364 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,410 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,848 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 38 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 30 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 30 | #992 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,578 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,210 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,301 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 13 | #1,183 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,238 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,380 | 0.03 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,133 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,574 | 0.03 |
| 1903 | 14 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1901 | 20 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 11 | #1,199 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 17 | #806 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 15 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 12 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,500 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 18 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 16 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 12 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 11 | #942 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 11 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,082 | 0.04 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1886 | 8 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1884 | 7 | #894 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lilah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lilah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 137 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lilah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lilah, and how old are they?
23,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 24,664 Americans ever recorded as Lilah. The median Lilah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 13,981 people named Lilah (13,967 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15,151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 67 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 109 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 150 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 254 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 16,400 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lilah born?
The states with the most babies named Lilah are California, Texas and Florida, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 164 | #205 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 130 | #264 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 94 | #198 | 0.8× |
| New York | 86 | #192 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 74 | #144 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 65 | #128 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 64 | #160 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 61 | #186 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 61 | #164 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 60 | #124 | 0.9× |
Where Lilah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lilah is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lilah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 458,436 babies since 1880, Lilah is the sixth most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,736 of their 16,730 babies (10%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lilah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lilah and names like it
- Compare Lilah and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLilah peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lilah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Lilah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lilah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lilah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.