How Many People Are Named Lilah?

23,520

people named Lilah are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 14,531 people in the US has this name

Based on 24,664 babies named Lilah in Social Security records from 1884 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,475

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#786

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Peak Year

2025

1,736 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Lilah in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lilah alive today is about 10 years old, and 98% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 14 in 2025.

Under 30 22,965
97.6%
30 to 59 362
1.5%
60 and over 192
0.8%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lilah first appears in the records in 1884, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 1,736 babies.

Babies given the name each year, 1884 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lilah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #179, in 2024 to 2025. In 2025 it ranked #179.

Girls
Rank in 2025#179
Best rank#179 (2024 to 2025)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#292 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lilah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lilah were born in California than in any other state: about 2,652 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lilah was given 2.5 times as often in Maine, 2 times in New Hampshire and 1.8 times in Massachusetts.

California 2,652
Texas 1,899
New York 1,259
Florida 1,117
Ohio 967
Pennsylvania 902
Illinois 841
Michigan 785
Massachusetts 719
North Carolina 718
Georgia 661
Indiana 610
Virginia 526
Washington 525
Wisconsin 517
Tennessee 503
Arizona 495
Colorado 477
Minnesota 456
New Jersey 443
Missouri 402
Kentucky 360
Louisiana 331
Connecticut 320
Oregon 303
Alabama 300
South Carolina 284
Maryland 279
Oklahoma 263
Utah 252
Kansas 240
Iowa 200
Arkansas 193
Nevada 180
Maine 138
West Virginia 135
Mississippi 130
New Hampshire 119
Nebraska 118
New Mexico 108
Idaho 97
Alaska 52
District of Columbia 43
Montana 42
North Dakota 37
Rhode Island 29
Hawaii 22
South Dakota 15
Vermont 12
Delaware 6

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