Entry № 11969 · Hebrew origin

Zillah Zillah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZIL-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Shadow (Lamech's second wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "shadow (lamech's second wife)".

Zillah (צִלָּה) means "shadow" or "shade" in Hebrew. In Genesis 4:19, Zillah was the second wife of Lamech — mother of Tubal-Cain, the first metalworker, and of Naamah.

Featured in Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth.

Shadow (Lamech's second wife) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

צִלָּה
Transliteration
Ṣillāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈzɪl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zillah stands.

Zillah 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.

Zillahs before her.

Real people
Zillah
Lamech's wife.
In fiction
Zillah
Genesis 4:19.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Zillah.

The number behind Zillah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zillah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.