Comments for LILITH:

Something I find interesting is that there is a doll named Lilith in the Living Dead Doll series (those are so twisted, yet so great).

-- Belle Enfant  5/17/2005

People used to believe that Lilith, the evil demoness, would come and try to rob children from their beds at night. This is why the English word "lullaby" is derived from Hebrew words meaning "Lilith go away".

-- Anonymous User  7/15/2005

No, "lullaby" has NOTHING to do with "Lilith". You can look up "lullaby" in any dictionary and see it comes from Old English not Hebrew and the "lulla" part is from "lull", for lulling a baby to sleep.

-- greta-elisif  4/16/2006

Greta-elisif said before (rather rudely) that the name Lilith had nothing to do with "Lullaby". How do you know that it's from the Greek origin, hmmm? The Israeli phrase "Lilith Go Away" is Lilith Abi. Lilith Abi= Lullaby?

-- So Be It  8/15/2007

Lilith is also a popular name for people that like to write about vampires. She is perceived as a vampire quite often because of her blood-thirsty ways. There is a book called "Tales From The Dark Tower" in which Lilith is described as a sort of Dark Queen of vampires.

-- Dark Whysper  8/21/2005

Just like the name Jezebel, this name has a nice ring to it.

-- echo_of_the_past  9/22/2005

I am not quite sure that Lillith's history is also an element in Islamic tradition. Anything in Islamic tradition which is not explicitly in the book, but is in older books, tends to be stamped with a big maybe. I understand the name is not particularly popular among Hebrews and I have only ever encountered it amongst individuals with a feminist or magic penchant. Alistair Crowley's daughter had Lillith in her full name (it was one of perhaps 20 that the little girl had; she died young.)
On another note, the Semitic root in Lillith means "night", which is also the root of the name Leila, which is found among both Jewish and Islamic peoples. It is my name. It is accepted. So I wonder why an equally beautiful name such as Lillith, which bears in essence the same meaning, is shunned.

-- Anonymous User  10/12/2005

Lilith Stern-Crane is a popular character on the shows Frasier and Cheers, a monotoned-voiced ex-wife of Frasier Crane. The demonic aspects of this name suit her.

-- Leonardo2505  12/14/2005

It seems kind of sad that a beautiful name became associated with a demonic spirit. I think the name sounds nice, and prefer to look at how the famous bearer was willing to sacrifice a place in paradise rather then submit. It makes the name seem strong.

-- Kyran  12/29/2005

How come Eve is the first woman if Lilith was Adam's first wife? Hmm...=/

-- AnonaBee  3/2/2006

In some mythologies it is believed that Lilith was the mother of all vampires after she was thrown out of Eden.

-- Anonymous User  3/15/2006

From what I know, and I looked a bit for information about Lilith (first wife of Adam) is that all she wanted was to be Adam's equal partner. Because she didn't want to submit to him, Adam, like all stupid, vain men, understood that she wanted to be on top.

-- afmona  4/15/2006

Hmm. Right. How CAN Eve be the first woman if Lillith was Adam's wife before her...? I smell conspiracy. This is a beautiful name. Why on earth would someone "give up a place in paradise" for having a certain name?

-- Anonymous User  4/21/2006

I personally think that Lilith is a beautiful name and I don't think that anyone will die because of their name. Unless you are superstitious.

-- mirob3  4/21/2006

In the Book 'The Devil's Arithmetic' by Jane Yolen, Rivka, a character in the book, described/christined the gas chamber of the camp as 'Lilith's Cave'.

-- echo_of_the_past  6/2/2006

I think it's kind of a cool name. It's misfortunate that it's evil.

-- Tudor  6/20/2006

I will say that, like Jezebel, this name does have a pretty ring to it. It's tragic that this pretty name has become associated with evil. I would say that she was not truly evil, only written of in such a negative way in order to put women in their place; Lilith was expelled from the Garden merely because she expressed her own opinion, which was that she did not want to submit to Adam.

-- gaelruadh19  7/20/2006

The claim that Lilith was the first wife of Adam and the original vampire is so ridiculous I cannot help but laugh! Can't you distinguish fact from folklore?

-- Anonymous User  8/12/2006

The entire Bible is folklore, not fact. Most people seem incapable of distinguishing.

-- Anonymous User  4/2/2007

Christianity does not recognise the myth of Lilith. Only Judaism and Islam do.

-- ADT  8/17/2006

I love this name. I find it very beautiful and sophisticated. I also love the fact that it means "of the night" in Assyrian because I like the names that have meanings associated with night. On the other hand, the myth saying that the offspring of Adam and Lilith were the evil spirits of the world doesn't bother me at all. :-))

-- audreyhubley  8/28/2006

Lilith first appears in 'Gilgamesh and the Huluppu Tree' (written from pre-existing oral tradition around 2400 BCE, this part of the epic broke off and is not physically in the original but is often included to help what is left of the text for this section to make sense), and the story of her as Adam's first wife seems to first appear in 'The Alphabet of Ben Sira', if anyone is looking to read the origins of her story.

-- jc  9/8/2006

I absolutely LOVE this name, despite that it has a bad meaning.

-- Anonymous User  9/17/2006

From what I understand (and keep in mind that I'm not Catholic or Jewish, for all that I went to Catholic school for six years), Lilith was the first wife of Adam in the Talmud. She was banished from Eden. Eve was Adam's third wife. (I think he saw the second one being made and was disgusted.)

She's also a character in various Marvel comics.

-- Larissa_Evans  11/20/2006

Personally, I think that Lilith is a beautiful name. Though I do agree with that Anonymous User that said they smelt a conspiracy about Lilith being Adam's first wife when it is said that Eve, his second wife, was the first women to ever be created. Also, it is sad that the name has a evil meaning while Adam and Lilith's offspring were evil spirits.

-- love_names  1/10/2007

I LOVE this name. Shame on the bad meaning though.

-- Anonymous User  1/18/2007

Lilith's children were supposed to be Incubus and Succubus, not vampires.

-- Anonymous User  1/27/2007

Submission of a woman to her husband was part of the punishment for having eaten the fruit from the forbidden tree. Submission was not part of the deal from the beginning, but decreed as a result of Eve's letting the serpent talk her into doing something she knew was wrong.

So I doubt there is anything remotely like truth to the legend of Lillith. If, in fact, that is the legend.

When I hear the name I think of Lillith Crane from "Frasier."

-- Annabeau  2/14/2007

What a pretty name with a pretty sound! Too bad its meaning is slightly horrible. Just slightly!

-- Jasmine  3/2/2007

Lilith is one of my favourite 'Lily' names. :)

-- veggiedoll  4/28/2007

She would not submit to him because she was made separately from Adam. She challenged his authority as head of the household and when Adam refused to compromise, she left and Eve was made from Adam's rib so there would never be any question of man's superiority.

-- Anonymous User  5/5/2007

I personally really like the sound of this name. It's simple, but very elegant. Soft, but strong. And the story behind it only serves to make the name more interesting. You could, perhaps, say that Lilith was the original feminist, as well as the first rebel. If that isn't a distinguished title to bear, then what is?

-- DystopianDesign  6/3/2007

Not all people recognize or believe this legend of Lilith being Adam's first wife. Adam's first wife was Eve. Period. Lilith is only a legend and superstitious myth. As for the name, it is sad though that it has to be associated with evil and scary things, because it's a nice and beautiful name (like Lillian and Elizabeth).

-- Anonymous User  6/22/2007

I always thought they would say this is a combination of Lily and Elizabeth.

-- Anonymous User  7/23/2007

Personally, I think it's cool that Lilith refused to succumb to Adam if she didn't want to. She was assertive. If a man refused to succumb, nobody would think twice. She's blood-thirsty and her children are evil spirits? Whom do you think made up the myths--women or men? Can Lilith just be a name today, or do we have to "succumb" to the meanings of mythology and not enjoy a beautiful name?

-- madcityquilter1  8/27/2007

In Shakespeare's Macbeth, I always imagined Lady Macbeth as a Lilith. I don't know why. But I looked it up and the meaning sure fits. (They never say her first name in the script.)

-- sharonrenee  9/1/2007

The word "woman" literally means "taken out of man." If Lilith was created in the same manner as Adam, she would not be a woman. In fact, she would be a man, because the word "man" literally means "red earth." (See a Hebrew-English dictionary on the name Adam.)
In CS Lewis' "the Lion the witch and the wardrobe," Lilith is the ancestor of Jadis. But I'm not sure if Lewis actually believed Lilith existed. Lilith could simply be one of the Assyrian gods Israel had been forbidden to worship, but did anyway. I personally think her inclusion in Jewish myth was the result of the disobedience that got them exiled in the first place.

-- Atarah Derek  9/10/2007

I read that Lilith means "dark, night" and in history, she would either take kids away or kill them. I can't really remember what it said, but I know it had to do with children.

-- xA7Xgrl13x  9/16/2007

From what I read, I do think there is a conspiracy to this whole "who was the first wife of Adam." To make things clear, the bible IS NOT folklore, it's history. Now when I was a child I read the first pages of the Bible and from what I remember it read "God created them, both man and woman" then a few sentences down it states "God put Adam into a deep sleep and took a rib from Adam and made a companion for him, Adam called her woman, for she was taken out of man." Now to me that was confusing it sounded like God created TWO women. Remember the Bible was not a book to begin with, books in ancient times were called scolls and there were many books (scrolls) that were left out and selected the most appropiate books to form the Bible. Then the Bible was translated from Hebrew to Arabic to Greek to English. So much translation that words get the wrong meaning or misinterpreted. I believe that somewhere during this translation someone left out an important piece from the manuscript either by accident or on purpose, there were some scholars that thought some of the writings from other scholars and prophets as blasphemous. There is a "possibility" that Lilith did exist. She saw herself as an equal because she was made from the earth just like Adam so she thought why was she considered lower than he. She also represented the first divorce when she left Adam, and like all men cried and wanted her back, but she refused and to make Adam happy god created Eve.

-- Dravinus  10/17/2007

This is such a beautiful name. It's such a shame about the history/myth of it though. It is a waste of a beautiful name.

-- mum2bubba  11/27/2007

Eve was the first "Woman" to be created, not Lilith. You see, Lilith was made of earth just as Adam was (and was, technically his equal). After Lilith was expelled for refusing to submit, Eve was eventually made out of Adam's rib (thus making her a piece of him and, technically, belonging to him); in the Bible it is explained that Eve's kind was given a name that means "of man". Therefore, arguably, Lilith wasn't a woman at all.

-- Anonymous User  12/4/2007

In the King James Version of the bible, her name is replaced by the term screech-owl.
"The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest."

Rough morpho-syntactic translation of the original Hebrew:
"the yelpers will meet the howlers; the hairy-ones will cry to their fellow. Liyliyth will repose, and there she will acquire a resting-place."

Liyliyth's name is variously replaced with the terms:
night-owl (Young, 1898)
night monster (ASV, 1901 AND NASB, 1995)
vampires (Moffatt Translation, 1922)
night hag (RSV, 1947)
Lilith (Jerusalem Bible, 1966)
Lilith (New American Bible, 1970)
night creature (NIV, 1978; AND NKJV, 1982; AND NLT, 1996)
nightjar (New World Translation, 1984).

-- Anonymous User  12/4/2007

When I hear this name, I think of a seductive temptress. I think if I ever have a daughter, I will name her Lilith.

-- ICEyun  12/26/2007

Lilith is also the name of a character in the Capcom fighting game series 'Dark Stalkers'.

-- ICEyun  1/6/2008

An absolutely gorgeous name! Being non-Christan (Agnostic Spiritualist, to be precise), I can use this without being stupidly petrified that some great non-existant hand will drop out of the sky and shout "Thou hast sinned!" or whatever your God dude is meant to say. In the words of Bruce Almighty, smite me, oh mighty smiter!

-- DontDissMadison  1/10/2008

There is a fabulous fantasy book called "Lilith" by George MacDonald, the 19th century Scottish author (my favorite author), who also wrote "The Princess and the Goblin" and "Phantastes" (the first adult fantasy book ever written). "Lilith" is a Christian Fantasy novel (I'm not Christian, but I still love it), and the villainess is Lilith, a demoness, and Adam's first wife. In the book Lilith was a vampire. She wasn't called that, she was called a demon, but she drank human blood, was immortal, all that jazz. She was one crazy, evil creature. In the book, she and Adam have a daughter named Lona, who is the true love of the main character, Mr. Vane. Lilith kills Lona at the end of the book, but then she repents of all of her sins and is forgiven by God. Lona and Mr. Vane are reunited in Heaven (at least, they will be when Mr. Vane dies). It's an incredibly beautiful book, and Lilith is a really beautiful name, even with the negative connotation. I love the name Lilith!

-- harry_sent_me  4/29/2008

In the fantasy series Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony, Lilith, who was a demoness and Adam's first wife, became the consort of the Devil after she was expelled from Eden. However, she actually falls in love with Mym, who becomes Mars, the Incarnation of War. He eventually saves her from Satan. She goes by different names, sometimes Lilith, sometimes Lilah, sometimes Lila. She was the one who seduced the current Incarnation of Evil, Satan, whose real name is Parry (the Incarnation of Evil before Satan was Lucifer-all the offices of the Incarnations change after a while). Parry/Satan/Natasha (those were all his names at one time or another) is actually a pretty good guy, just misunderstood. How cliche, I know! Anyway, great series of books.

-- harry_sent_me  4/29/2008

This is one of my favourite names. She was the first rebel, the first feminist and the first person ever to fight for her rights. A noble character, a special character and one who I wish to name my children after. Shame on the people who think that she was bad. She was fearless but got a bad reputation that she did not deserve. Religious folk sometimes believe in gender inequality.

-- GarbageGuy  5/11/2008

Lilith was Adam's first wife who didn't want to succumb to him. I think that this was the people who wrote the Bible's way of saying that men are in charge. I also read in a book that Lilith was the mother of Lucifer. Whether that is true or not, I can't say. Also, just to clear things up, if you carefully read the beginning of Genesis, Eve was not around when God told Adam not to eat from the tree of knowledge. So it is just another example of men trying to make women look bad.

-- dogstar21  5/12/2008

A pretty cool name, just because it sounds evil and pretty at the same time. Offers good nicknames as well.

-- amishigloo  6/25/2008

In the TV show Supernatural, Lilith is the name given to an extra strong demon from hell who wants to kill Sam + Dean. Man I love that show!

-- Sneasel  6/30/2008

I've heard of an album called Soliloquy for Lilith (although I've never listened to it). It's by a band called Nurse With Wound, and apparently Lilith was the name of the lead singer's daughter, hence the album's name.

-- Pippin  8/4/2008

Lilith denotes "night demon" - the Hebrew word for "night" is laila (lie-lah), akin to the beautiful name Leila and its spelling variants.

-- Jonquil  8/22/2008

There is a Gothic Rock band from Poland called Lilith.

-- harry_sent_me  10/1/2008

I quite like the bit about "not submitting to men", so I can see myself with a Lilith soon.

-- reina  12/2/2008

I think this name is beautiful, and the 'bad' associations really don't bother me.

The story about her being the first woman, and not submitting to Adam? Never heard that before, but that makes me want to name a daughter after her more than ever!

-- nothingtolose18  2/1/2009

As a Christian, I personally believe that Lilith was made up, that she was a story placed in Genesis to make women believe that they had to submit. I really love this name because Lilith was the first feminist, first rebel, the first truly strong woman (unless you believe that she wasn't a woman) and it's a beautiful name itself. I think it would make a good middle name, the kind that a child can go by if they so choose.

-- magicalhannah7  3/7/2009

This somehow sees like a feminist name to name- not that that's a bad thing at all, though.

-- Kerules  6/26/2009

Lilith is a lovely sounding name. Anyone who believes that there was an 'evil' person created by 'God' with this name is likely to also believe things equally preposterous.

-- vomiting  6/26/2009

Lilith was Adam's first wife chiefly according to The Alphabet of Ben Sira. Before this, or the Talmud, or the Bible, she was an infertile, beautiful demon of storm and disease who seduced men, or came to them when they were asleep. Later she was said to have refused to lie underneath Adam, because God had made them both of clay (equal) some sources also say she also laughed at his sexual crudeness - and left of her own accord. Abrahamic people were surrounded by matriarchy-leaning cultures at this time, the figure of Lilith looks like an assertion of what they did not want in a woman. I think the name itself is beautiful.

-- Waimarama  7/18/2009

One of my favorite names! I'll name my daughter Lilith! It's a name for a gorgeous girl, beautiful and independent, smart and even sexy! Great name!

-- Ravynne  8/18/2009

This name sounds so amazing, it's a real shame about the meaning though. Personally, I wouldn't use this name simply because of its meaning and association, but it's still on my name list, because I think it sounds so cool, and beats Lily any day.

-- walesgal92  10/18/2009

Lilith's story is a great one. She wanted equality, got kicked out by the system, and became the mother of a curse that still to this day plagues modern man: vampires. Good for her.

-- Lily_le_Fae  11/18/2009

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