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Dalilah

#1,175 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Dalilah has been given to 5,135 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,175 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 263 recorded.

Babies named Dalilah, 2025

1 in 16,800

Dalilah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dalilah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dalilah means

Dalilah is a given name.

The naming story behind Dalilah

Wikidata records Dalilah as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q69677641, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,135 girls were recorded with the name Dalilah between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 263 in 2008; its best national rank was #990 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,094 in 2020 to #1,175 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,177 in 2015 to #1,175 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dalilah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 16,800
197 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,160
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,175
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,666 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dalilah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,666 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dalilah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dalilahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dalilah was born before 2013 — so the typical Dalilah is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,135
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (2,232).

Is Dalilah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−125
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−81
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.9%
Peak was 2008 (263)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#990
2013

Spellings of Dalilah

Dalilah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 26.0% against Dalilah's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dalilah is used

Across 2016–2025, Dalilah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,167 girls, against 1 in 7,321 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

224 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,167
  2. 2Illinois1 in 4,167
  3. 3Texas1 in 5,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 5,882
  5. 5Indiana1 in 6,250
  6. 6Michigan1 in 6,250
  7. 7Florida1 in 7,143
  8. 8Ohio1 in 7,143

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Dalilah around the world

Where Dalilah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2013–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1956–1978
    #2,796
    in 1978
  • Canada
    2010–2018
    #1,987
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Dalilah

People whose public names include Dalilah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Dalilah in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Dalilah. Linked forms have their own page here.

Delilah

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Dalilah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,175
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 81
Best rank ever
#990
2013
Peak year
2008
263 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,135
Count in 2025
197

Names similar to Dalilah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Dalilah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Dalilah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Dalilah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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