Girls' name · since 1918
Lylith
Lylith has 141 recorded births since 1918 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #23,428 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,536 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 141
- born since 1918
- 2010s
- peak decade
141 babies have been named Lylith since 1918, making it today's #7536 girls' name.
Lylith has 141 recorded births among girls since 1918, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #7536 as of the latest data, more common than 56% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1918 to 2025.
- #23,428 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #7,536 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 141 born since 1918
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lylith ranks #23,428 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #7,536 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 141 born since 1918, peaking in the 2010s.
- #23,428 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #7,536 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 141
- born since 1918
- 2010s
- peak decade
Lylith's 141 recorded births place it above 67.58% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Lylith compares
141 30th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Lylith's all-time total is 62% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lylith | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 141 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 14 | 21 | 19,840 |
Lylith's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lylith splits its recorded history at 2017: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2012 (6 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lylith popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1918–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 108 years of records
Lylith by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (77 births, 55% of the file).
2010s was Lylith's strongest decade.
77 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Lylith births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 7
1910s
7 births
- 2000s 8
2000s
8 births
- 2010s
2010s
77 births
- 2020s
2020s
49 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 77 births (55% of all-time use).
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- Lylith's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (77 total births) through the 2020s (49) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lylith: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~107 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1918–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lylith draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.