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Lilita

Girls' name

Night, through לילית

Lilita has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1952, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Lilita, 1952

1 in 759,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lilita: meaning, origin, and history

Night, through לילית

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lilita means

Lilita belongs to the name family reached through Lilita → לילית. Its meaning is “night”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lilita is used in Latvian.

Lilita comes through Hebrew לילית.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include לילית.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Lilita between 1952 and 1952. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1952; its best national rank was #6,039 in 1952.

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 Lilita?

Lilita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1952, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1952
1 in 759,000
5 of 3,796,842 births
Among girls only
1 in 371,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1952
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
526,355 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lilita 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 1952 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 526,355 children born in 1952 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lilita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lilitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lilita was born before 1952 — so the typical Lilita is around 73 today.

Median birth year
1952
About 73 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
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1950s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Lilita 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1952 (5)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,039
1952

Spellings of Lilita

Lilita is not the most common spelling — Lila is, with 25.1% against Lilita's <0.01%.

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.

Lilita around the world

Where Lilita 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.

  • South Australia
    1963–2000
    #727
    in 2000

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lilita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,039
1952
Peak year
1952
5 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
1952
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lilita

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

LilajoLilietLilanyLilicaLileiaLilleaLilynnLilianoLillyjoLillyahLilliynLiliyanLiliamLilienLiletteLilarLilleahLilyraeLillietteLilabethLilymayLilaniAlritaAllita

Sibling names for Lilita

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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