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Night, in the Arabic-derived Leila variant interpretation.
Lilah’s exact personal-name entry explicitly records a Leila variant route as well as a separate short-form relationship to Delilah. The scholarly Leila entry explains that Arabic name as night. This meaning applies to the Leila-related route only; it is not a translation of the separate Hebrew Delilah route. Licensed lily and Lyle/island accounts remain uncorroborated.
English short form of Delilah; also a variant of Leila.
The exact entry records two naming routes. A meaning from either longer name is not automatically assigned to every Lilah.
Not yet published for this spelling.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
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| Canada | 2025 | Girls | 158 · preliminary | 186 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2025 | Girls | 5 (rounded to 5) | 3756 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Girls | 464 | 99 | Published ranks differ from ranks calculated over visible rows. Counts retained; automated trend labels withheld. Rank basis: source published. |
| Northern Ireland | 2025 | Girls | 19 | 111 | Two rank discrepancies and alternate-view differences retained. Automated trend labels withheld. Rank basis: source published. |
| Scotland | 2025 | Girls | 44 | 100 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Ireland | 2025 | Girls | 24 | 186 | Names below three occurrences are unpublished. Accent recording changed in 2018; comparisons across that boundary may not describe the same spelling coverage. Counts refer to registrations in the year. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Girls | 1,736 | 179 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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Exact entry records English given-name use; this is separate from ancestry and the histories of its longer forms. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Lilah’s exact personal-name entry explicitly records a Leila variant route as well as a separate short-form relationship to Delilah. The scholarly Leila entry explains that Arabic name as night. This meaning applies to the Leila-related route only; it is not a translation of the separate Hebrew Delilah route. Licensed lily and Lyle/island accounts remain uncorroborated. Credit: Wiktionary contributors, exact Lilah entry at the cited revision; Eva Brylla and Katharina Leibring, Förnamn i Sverige – kortfattat namnlexikon, second edition, Isof (2026), printed page 242. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Lilah&oldid=72933600; https://isof.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2041530/FULLTEXT01.pdf#page=244. License: lexical adaptations CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); original brief scholarly factual summary, book copyright remains with Charlotta Seiler Brylla, Katharina Leibring and Isof (https://www.isof.se/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names restated one explicitly scoped parent-name interpretation in English, preserving the other naming routes and any uncertainty. No source passages, images or recordings reproduced.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Lilah entry states both relationships. Delilah explicitly links to a Hebrew source name; Leila explicitly links to Arabic Layla. These routes do not establish one literal meaning or pronunciation for every Lilah. Licensed lily and Lyle/island accounts remain unconfirmed. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Lilah English entry explicitly identifies this short-form connection. It is an optional naming relationship, not a claim that every bearer has the longer legal name. Spellings retain separate popularity statistics. Lilah also has a separately documented Leila variant route; no single parent-name meaning is imposed. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names. No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact entry records two naming routes. A meaning from either longer name is not automatically assigned to every Lilah. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Nominis page explicitly presents an Elisabeth-related naming route through Lila. This is a source-specific name-family relationship, not a direct spelling variant, mandatory longer legal name, or a merger of popularity counts. Credit: Nominis, Eglise catholique en France. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; source rights retained. No source prose, images or audio reproduced.
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Supporting evidence for the explicitly recorded short-form route, with Hebrew ancestry. Delilah pronunciation and interpretations are not automatically assigned to every Lilah. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Supporting evidence for the separately recorded spelling-variant route, with Arabic ancestry. Leila’s alternative pronunciations are not automatically transferred to Lilah. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The exact Lilah page proposes a Latin lily association and separately relates the name to Lila through Elisabeth. These source-specific accounts add to, rather than replace, the existing Delilah and Leila routes. They do not settle one universal meaning, verify the licensed Lyle/island account, or supply an English pronunciation. Credit: Nominis, Eglise catholique en France. Original factual summary by Rare Baby Names; source rights retained. No source prose, images or audio reproduced.
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The exact English entry identifies a Leila variant route separately from the Delilah short-form route. This does not merge their meanings, readings or statistics. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; adapted and condensed by Rare Baby Names. No source audio reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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Attribution: Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: (C) Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.
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Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
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Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
License: CC BY 4.0
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: joined the published count and rank indicators and matched unambiguous existing spellings. Source values retained.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
