Lilith

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Finnish
Norwegian
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) Babylonian/Hebrew lilith = 'night monster' or 'screech owl' derived from Hebrew lyl = 'night'

3) Name of a Babylonian-Hebrew storm and night demon of unknown meaning

2) Elaborated form of Lilli

Related Names

Lilit	♀
Lilith	♀
Lillit	♀
Lillith	♀

See also Lilli

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Lilitharson

Female

Lilithardóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Lilith
Genitive:	Liliths

- Finnish
Nominative:	Lilith
Genitive:	Lilithin
Partitive:	Lilithiä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Lilith
Accusative:	Lilith
Dative:	Lilith
Genitive:	Lilithar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Lilith
Genitive:	Liliths

- Swedish
Nominative:	Lilith
Genitive:	Liliths

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland:
  • Officially rejected as a given name on 24 November 2020
  • Officially approved as a given name on 9 September 2021

Bible

• Lilith is the name of a Babylonian goddess of the night referred to in the Authorized version of the Bible as a 'screech owl' and in the Revised Standard version as a 'night monster' (Isaiah 34.14); in Jewish folklore the name is that of Adam's first wife, who left him to become the 'devil's dam'.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		133	280	133	278	0	2
Finland		n.a.	65	n.a.	65	0	0
Denmark		24	n.a.	24	n.a.	0	n.a.
Norway		29	n.a.	29	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Greenland		0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

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