Lilith

My cousins baby girl's name is Ebony Lilith...

Her parents are Goth Pagans. I think.

Bless little Ebony, she's adorable & actually almost ginger with lovely blue eyes.

I didn't know the connotations but it didn't sound nice to me anyway (maybe subconsciously I have heard of it). I think it sounds like an evil creature in Lord of the rings - beware the Lillith. It's the 'ith' bit with connotations. Lily and Lillian (and dare I say Lillibet) don't sound evil.

She was fantastic!

Frasier’s ex was a brilliant character whose only fault was being cleverer than Frasier, if you ask me. (Still don’t think you should use the name.)

I don't know that 'being religious' is such a gotcha. Most kids like to find out which other famous people they share their names with, and it's a bit of a facer to discover your only choices are the woman who was thrown out of paradise or Frasier's ex wife.

Lilith is awful. Why would you saddle your poor baby with that name?

Rebekkah is not the right spelling - it's Rebekah or Rebecca.

Hth.

Another vote for Judith or Yael if you want a non-compliant biblical woman.

I love it.

Strong independent feisty woman who takes no shit from men.

What’s not to like 🤷‍♀️

I love it but I'm quite gothy!

I wouldn't
How about Lilian
Elspeth
Judith( I'm a Judith and have never met another!)

It's heartwarming to see so many religious people on this post. I have to admit I never realised that religion was so popular in the UK with all these churches closing 🙄

Calm her what you like OP because the vast majority of people won't associate it with religion unless they watch the tv show supernatural 😂

Is that from the Anne McCaffrey dragon books. I think there was a dragon called Lilleth.

I don't think it's a bad name. The religious stuff wouldn't put me off at all but I do think it sounds a bit lispy

Love rebellious first woman!!

I actually think its a beautiful name, but it has strong, well known demonic connotations so its a no from me!

Lilith isn't in the Bible. She is a figure from Jewish mythology.

It also means other things to other people. The rebellious first woman, refusal to obey etc.

I love it and always have but the connotations to anyone religious will not be nice.

I'd still go for it tbh.

I'm catholic and I never knew that! Admittedly a bad catholic...

Rahab also

On a practical level - the Roman Catholic catechism states that "parents, sponsors, and the pastor are to see that a name is not given which is foreign to Christian sentiment", but there's also a strong tradition that parents have the priviliege of choosing the name that God will use to communicate with their child. There is not, from any official source, a universal list of excluded names.

Certain Protestant sects - perhaps evangelical? - may have more strict guidelines. I would simply check with your parish priest, pastor, minister, etc - whoever would be performing or overseeing the baptism - to make sure there wouldn't be an objection raised to the specific name. ("Sponsors", I believe, refers to godparents, at least in the RC tradition - so perhaps check with these as well, once you have considered priest's/pastor's response, to make sure they will not balk).

Awful name. Call her Lillette instead. That'll keep the relatives happy!
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Your parents are right.

Sorry OP but please put your child first. She's the one who'll be living with the name, not you. Spending half the time justifying and explaining a name choice (because you will have to) detracts from the actual child. What if she's not a bold and feisty Adam's first wife type, but just wants a peaceful life? She may well resent you for it.

The second name you chose is a great option with just as much character.

Teachers shouldn't.
But the name is still an ordinary name, its not like calling her Maleficent- a made up name for a witch, where the only use of that name is the witch and then trying to seperate the asssociation.

Lilith is a normal name, that other people are called, and was also the name of a bible character. I know two women called Lilith, for not religious people its just a name, silmilar to Lilian or Lilia or Lila etc.

And as more and more kids are called a wider variety of names and there is more cultural crossover now than there has been in history, in 20 years when Lilith is trying to get employed, she is unlikely to have employers judge her for what is quite a normal name.

A lot of judgement for names comes from people making negative assumptions about peoples background, I just dont think you get much from Lilith. Ive met a little boy called Cain, not a great person in the bible but nobody in real life cared, or decided that he was a small evil boy. I would think cain is a more unusual name with a stronger asocciation than Lilith