Delilah (given name)

Delilah is a feminine given name of uncertain meaning.

[1] The increase in the usage of the name in the Anglosphere has been attributed to the influence of the 2006 popular song Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's as well as its similarity in sound to other currently popular names such as Leila, Lila, and Lily.

[2] Another source notes its similarity in sound to the etymologically unrelated words delightful and lilac.

[3] It has been among the top one thousand names used for girls in the United States since 1997 and among the one hundred most used names for American girls since 2018.

[5] The variant Dalila was among the most popular names for newborn girls in 2021 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.