Is anyone called, or know someone in real life called, Lilith?

I wouldn't call a child Lilith or Lucifer and I say that as an atheist. There are much better names you can choose.

She’s not a nice demon.

Isn't that the point of demons?

She’s not a nice demon. She steals and kills infants. I wouldn’t. People see it as a feminist name and I guess in a way it is but I couldn’t get past the violent demon connotations.

But she is a baby-stealing demon because she refused to be subservient to Adam, like those subsidiary female characters of 19thc novels who are punished by the plot for not being nice, compliant girls.

Look at Great Expectations -- Estella, who enjoys her power as a heartbreaker, is married off by Dickens to a man who beats her brutally; Mrs Joe Gargery, who is a plain, raging, frustrated woman, orphaned young with a young brother to support on air and married to a well-meaning fool, ends up being beaten with a poker until she's a smiling, mute vegetable and then dies; Miss Havisham, who is rich enough not to have to obey the rules and decides not to deal 'gracefully' with being jilted by a conman on her wedding day but to do grand performative misery, is burned to death in her ancient wedding dress.

The 'logic' of the Lilith legends is similar -- refused to bow down to Adam? Gosh, we'd better make her fate ultra-hideous in case anyone gets ideas.

One of my cousins has a daughter with the middle name Lilith- he was going through his goth / satanic period.

Never met one but you might want to look up the name...

My only association is Frazier’s nasty ex in Frasier

Lilith isn't nasty in Frasier!

She's the ex-wife of a pompous, spoiled, petty man (I love Frasier but that's the character) and we see her through his eyes.

The fact she's demonised by him, and his vitriol towards her, is part of the joke.

She’s not a nice demon. She steals and kills infants. I wouldn’t. People see it as a feminist name and I guess in a way it is but I couldn’t get past the violent demon connotations.

I know a Lilith and she’s lovely.

Lillith was my husbands choice of names. I said no after reading the meaning. He wasn't put off by the meaning but I certainly was.

I have a name with a negative connotation so much so that my mother refused to tell me the meaning (before the internet) so I was in my teens when I found out.

I didn't really find it was a big deal but the name isn't as well known as Lilith so most people don't understand the legend behind.

I always assumed that Frazer's wife being called Lilith was a deliberate reference to the she-devil myth.

I don't know any older Liliths but I wouldn't be happy if my parents had given me that name.

So what? Pop culture is misogynistic. Like CS Lewis keeping the unfortunate Susan out of Narnia/ Heaven because she liked lipstick and parties.

It's not just the origin of the name, or the Fraser character- every pop culture character called Lilith is evil.

Everyone will have an image associated with the name (mine is CS Lewis) and they will all be negative.

I know a Lilleth. She’s Welsh. And lovely.

Yes, very cool film director. And the reason there’s an association with a baby-killing sex demon is precisely because one strand of thought has Lilith as Adam’s first wife, made at the same time and in the same way as him by God (ie. not from his rib), and who refused to be subservient to him, and was punished for it.

I wouldn’t have the slightest issue with the meaning.

Lilith Norman - author.

What about Lillian Blythe? I quite find that stunning!!

Same sounds but you can avoid Lilith. Although I guess you said the meaning doesn't bother you! I'm on the fence if it would bother me. Its empowering in a way but the actual meaning doesn't tell the whole story and there seem to be multiple stories as well. So bizarre that such a light name like Lilith is so heavy!!

DD4 has a friend at nursery called Lilith

Lilith fair in the USA is a music festival celebrating women. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith_Fair I've also know one and she was pretty much the opposite of the definition. Shy, sweet, down to earth. Quite nice all around, but with a backbone of steel when she needed it. I've always liked the name, and the nn of Lil.

No but I really wished I’d thought of Lilith now. Lovely name despite the misogyny.

Yes, a friend's DD.

She is known as Lily now because she couldn't pronounce Lilith at all as a child. My friend is reasonably irritated by this because she wanted to avoid popular names.

The demon connection would put me right off but don't think it was a particular issue in this case.

@LindaLyndell

Is the sibling called Lucifer...?

Not quite but along very similar lines!!

I know a 3 year old Lilith, but she gets called Lily so I'm not sure many people even know her proper name.

My first thought is that it's a demon's name. Or a succubus or something.