Girl · Hebrew
Zillah
Say it: ZIL-uh
Meaning
Hebrew Tsillah, usually read as 'shade, shadow'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used in 18th- and 19th-century England and America.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 473 babies given this name since 1881
- At its height in 1881, about 1 in 13,100 girls
- 9 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Zilla
| Hebrew | Tsila |
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Famous bearers
- Zillah, wife of Lamech in Genesis
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Parish baptism registers
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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