Zilah
- Gender
- Girl
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Zilah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “shade”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Zilah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Zillah
“shade”
A female given name from Hebrew.
Meaning borrowed from Zillah. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Zilah a girl's or a boy's name?
Zilah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Zilah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 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, 14 girls in the US were named Zilah, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Zilah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Zilah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
Names like Zilah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Zaniyah Zaliyah Zaya Salem Zainab Zamira Safa Nusaybah Zayla Naziyah Aaliyah
Names related to Zilah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
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, “Zilah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/zilah, updated 20 October 2026.