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Deliliah

Gender
Girl
Say it
deh-LY-lah
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#8,858 for girls

Deliliah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “delicate, languishing”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).

What does Deliliah mean?

Hebrew: variant spelling of Delilah

“delicate, languishing”

Delilah is the woman who betrays Samson to the Philistines in the Book of Judges.

Is Deliliah a girl's or a boy's name?

Deliliah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Deliliah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#8,858among girls
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 150,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Deliliah, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1922.

Half of all the girls named Deliliah in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1922Busiest: 13 in 20102025
Deliliah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202511#8,858
202413#7,962
20237#12,192
202210#9,674
202110#9,557
20207#12,137
20199#10,467
201810#9,801
20178#11,611
20167#12,871
20157#13,001
20148#11,925
20138#11,964
20127#13,477
20119#11,175
201013#8,697
20098#12,423
20086#15,399
20077#13,918
20060–
20059#10,915
20040–
20036#13,837
20020–
20016#13,514
20000–
19995#14,403
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19845#10,417
19837#8,045
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19785#9,748
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19715#8,322
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19595#6,244
19580–
19570–
19568#4,466
19550–
19540–
19535#5,672
19520–
19510–
19506#4,736
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19430–
19420–
19410–
19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19320–
19310–
19300–
19290–
19280–
19270–
19260–
19250–
19240–
19230–
19225#5,007

Nicknames for Deliliah

Names like Deliliah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Deliliah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/deliliah, updated 20 October 2026.