Lilah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lilah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila.
- USUnited States1 in 24K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 134K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 211K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
13,981 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila.
Sources 2
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lilah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 13,981 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Lilah | 237 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | listed | — | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 281K | listed | — | 5 |
| PH Philippines | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 427K | — | Lilah | 21 |
| FR France | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 267K | 370 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 134K | 59 | Lilah | 40 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Lilah | 12 |
| IL Israel | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Lilah | 12 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 244K | 33 | Lilah | 16 |
13,981 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); the id-github-names register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lilac Siganb. 1963ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli journalist and writer
- Lilach Galilb. 1967ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli writer and poet
- Lilah Sturgesb. 1970USAmerican comics writer
- Lilah Markmanb. 1971ILIsraeli artist
- Lilach Gliksmanb. 1972ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli singer
- Lilach Soninb. 1974ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli TV presenter
- Lilach Chaitman-Yerushalmib. 1985ILnot in their usual namePh.D.
- Lilah Richcreek Estradab. 1989USactress
- Lilah Fearb. 1999USBritish ice dancer
- Lilach Shnaidmanb. 1999ILnot in their usual namebadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14K | #1,980 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2023 | 370 | #2,963 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 59 | #84 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 59 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 33 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2025 | 22 | #73 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 19 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #1,980 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 10 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Lilah?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Lilah?
- In the etymology graph, Leyla, Lila and Leila are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Lilah mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Lilah a male or female name?
- Lilah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lilah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Lilah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lilah.
- Where is Lilah most common?
- Lilah is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lilah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,981 people named Lilah in 2020, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lilahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lilah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.