Dalila
Fewer than 200 women in Poland carry it, so most people here have never met a Dalila. The name comes from Hebrew and means "delicate", and it turns up only in scattered years, always for girls.
Dalila Pronunciation
Dalila is pronounced dah-LEE-lah (/daˈlila/).
What Dalila means
Where Dalila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dalila comes from Hebrew, where the older form Delilah first took shape. The traditional gloss reads it as delicate, and at times as weak. Scholars have argued over the Hebrew root for a long time, so that sense of delicacy sits on the name as an old reading rather than a settled origin.
The best known woman to bear the name is Delilah of the Book of Judges, who drew from Samson the secret of his strength and left him without it. Her story carried the name across the Bible and into many languages, Polish among them. For a long stretch of history she was the only Dalila most people could name.
In Poland the name stays rare. On a school register, Dalila sits apart from the Zuzannas and Amelias around her. It is short to write and easy to say. The old Hebrew reading holds: delicate.
How many people are named Dalila
1 in 187865 women in Poland is named Dalila. 120 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3067 among female names.
Dalila's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Dalila is most popular
Dalila is most popular in Silesian, 850% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025).
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Silesian3 girls born+850%
Dalila as a middle name
Dalila is a first name for 120 women in Poland and a middle name for another 32, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1231st, between Chi (32) and Elisabetta (32).
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#1229 Catarina32
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#1230 Chi32
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#1231 Dalila32
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#1232 Elisabetta32
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#1233 Freja32