Lilith

Meaning of Lilith

In the hush of a moon-washed Kyoto garden, the name Lilith drifts like the perfume of night-blooming wisteria—its Hebrew root, lilītu, murmuring “of the night”—and carries the ancient story of Adam’s first, unbowed companion, the winged wanderer who slipped beyond Eden and claimed the shadows as her own; from Sumerian clay to modern feminist verse, the syllables LIL-ith turn in the air with the quiet sweep of an owl’s feathers, suggesting self-possession, velvet mystery, and the courage to tread solitary paths, qualities that have drawn a growing tide of American parents to inscribe these five letters on birth certificates—barely a hundred at the dawn of this century, yet more than twelve hundred in 2024—much as some Japanese mothers and fathers seek names that echo the moonlit stillness of a haiku, believing that a daughter called Lilith may step through existence with the deliberate grace of a lacquer brush across rice paper, cool, serene, and indelible.

Pronunciation

English

• Pronunced as LIL-ith (/ˈlɪl.ɪθ/)

• Lilian
• Lila
• Lilah
• Lily
• Liliana
• Lillian
• Lilia