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Lilit

#10,554 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Lilith

Lilit has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #10,554 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Lilit, 2025

1 in 368,000

Lilit over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilit: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Lilith

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lilit means

Lilit is a form of Lilith.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lilit → Lilith → לִילִית. The family’s meaning is “night”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements láylā.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lilith.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 369 girls were recorded with the name Lilit between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2008; its best national rank was #7,207 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,716 in 2020 to #10,554 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,494 in 2015 to #10,554 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lilit?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,554
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilit 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilit. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilits were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilit was born before 2008 — so the typical Lilit is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
369
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Choose a decade

2000s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Lilit 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
−2,323
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,838
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,940
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2008 (18)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,207
1991

Spellings of Lilit

Lilit is not the most common spelling — Lily is, with 29.5% against Lilit's 0.06%.

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 Lilit is used

Across 1910–2025, Lilit was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 61,825 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000

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. Lilit has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lilit around the world

Where Lilit 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.

  • France
    2004–2024
    #6,668
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lilit by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,554
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,838
Best rank ever
#7,207
1991
Peak year
2008
18 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
369
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Lilit

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

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Sibling names for Lilit

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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