Meaning not yet researched.
Lilith: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,111 in 2025. Its best rank was #232 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #232 in 2023; #277 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lilith in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#277 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #232.
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Lilith: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,111 girls in 2025. Peak: #232 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 1,300 (2023).
In 2025, 1,111 US girls were named Lilith, making it the 277th most common girls’ name of the year, down 22 places from #255 in 2024. That is 141 fewer than the 1,252 girls named Lilith in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #232, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,300. For comparison, it was #587 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lilith in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 13,534 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,017 babies named Lilith.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 9,615 US girls were named Lilith; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 1,300. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,447 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lilith ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #80 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Lillith (2,097 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lilyth, Lilit and Lilieth are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lilyth (386), Lilit (369), Lilieth (274), Lillyth (143), Lylith (141), Liliet (6), Lilita (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lilith in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 8 | #80 | — |
| New Mexico | 13 | #107 | — |
| Maine | 9 | #123 | — |
| West Virginia | 11 | #144 | — |
| Nevada | 16 | #157 | #426 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #159 | #250 |
| Kentucky | 27 | #168 | #604 |
| Missouri | 37 | #168 | #413 |
| Oregon | 21 | #174 | #404 |
| Nebraska | 13 | #178 | — |
| Oklahoma | 21 | #190 | #313 |
| Michigan | 44 | #208 | #753 |
| Ohio | 54 | #213 | #503 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #217 | — |
| Colorado | 28 | #230 | #467 |
| Indiana | 30 | #238 | #464 |
| Arkansas | 13 | #241 | — |
| Washington | 30 | #243 | #579 |
| Tennessee | 33 | #243 | #412 |
| Illinois | 43 | #245 | #898 |
| Kansas | 13 | #246 | — |
| Utah | 19 | #246 | #482 |
| North Carolina | 42 | #263 | #750 |
| Texas | 128 | #272 | #608 |
| Alabama | 18 | #277 | #590 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #285 | — |
| Wisconsin | 19 | #285 | #360 |
| Arizona | 23 | #311 | #381 |
| California | 105 | #311 | #718 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #322 | #494 |
| Virginia | 24 | #339 | #756 |
| Iowa | 10 | #344 | #661 |
| Florida | 51 | #362 | #687 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #393 | #495 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #409 | #566 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #431 | #383 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #434 | #788 |
| Idaho | 5 | #452 | #415 |
| Maryland | 11 | #486 | #746 |
| Georgia | 23 | #499 | #678 |
| New York | 31 | #541 | #873 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #577 | #643 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #750 | #1,016 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,111 | #277 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,252 | #255 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,300 | #232 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,182 | #269 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,165 | #268 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,007 | #316 | — | — |
| 2019 | 771 | #403 | — | — |
| 2018 | 604 | #520 | — | — |
| 2017 | 639 | #488 | — | — |
| 2016 | 584 | #534 | — | — |
| 2015 | 515 | #587 | — | — |
| 2014 | 453 | #632 | — | — |
| 2013 | 323 | #829 | — | — |
| 2012 | 327 | #823 | — | — |
| 2011 | 282 | #924 | — | — |
| 2010 | 254 | #994 | — | — |
| 2009 | 221 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 2008 | 187 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2006 | 134 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 2005 | 130 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 2002 | 103 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,860 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,386 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,133 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,276 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,189 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,888 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,341 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,884 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,610 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,397 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,858 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,140 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,587 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,552 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,972 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,799 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,098 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,777 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,341 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,263 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,027 | — | — |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,759 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,484 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,556 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,979 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,043 | — | — |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,940 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,033 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).