#502024 rank
2024peak year
62,467babies named Delilah since 1880
▲ +34%5-year trend
Delilah popularity over 145 years
🔥 Very popular now · roughly undefined% girls / NaN% boys in 2024
What does Delilah mean?
From the Hebrew dlilah, 'delicate', the biblical figure associated with Samson. Long avoided for that story, it spread into wider use in the 2000s.
OriginHebrew
Syllables3
Gendergirl
Stylemythic, vintage
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Spellings & variants
DelilaDalila
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