Lilit
A Hebrew name holding two senses at once: "lily" and "of the night". In Poland it stays genuinely rare, carried by around 165 women and girls, though a slow trickle of newborns keeps it inching upward.
Lilit Pronunciation
Lilit is pronounced LEE-leet (/ˈlilit/).
What Lilit means
Where Lilit comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lilit comes from Hebrew, where its root reaches back to layil, the word for night. The short meaning attached to it in English is "of the night." The name-form Lilith surfaces just once in the Hebrew Bible, in Isaiah 34:14, among the creatures of a ruined and desolate place. That single verse gave later readers a night-figure whose story grew far beyond the original line.
In Polish the name drifts toward a different sound. Readers hear lilia in it, the lily, and that flower-sense settled onto Lilit as a companion to its older meaning. The lily reading came later. It sits beside the night-root rather than replacing it.
Lilit has no fixed name-day in the Polish calendar, so a girl carrying it on a class register stands a little apart from the Zuzannas and Julias beside her. The name holds two meanings at once: night from the Hebrew, lily from the Polish ear.
How many people are named Lilit
1 in 136629 women in Poland is named Lilit. 165 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2512 among female names.
Lilit's popularity over time
2 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1671 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2023.
Where parents choose Lilit
Lilit is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Masovian
+510%1 in 177,133 babies
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Masovian+510% 2 born1 in 177,133 babies+510%
Lilit as a middle name
Lilit is a first name for 165 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 95/5 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2796th, between Liesbeth (8) and Lisette (8).
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#2794 Liang8
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#2795 Liesbeth8
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#2796 Lilit8
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#2797 Lisette8
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#2798 Lizelota8