Entry № 5909 · Arabic origin

Lilah Lilah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Night"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "night".

Lilah is a variant spelling of Lila, meaning night.

A fresh spelling of a well-loved name, it keeps the familiar sound with a look all its own.

Night — a much-loved spelling.

The name in its native script.

Lilah
Transliteration
Lilah
Pronunciation
/ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lilah stands.

Lilah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lilahs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Lilah.

The number behind Lilah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lilah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.