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

[Jellybe4n]

Hubby and I are expecting a baby girl in a couple of months. We cannot seem to settle on a name.

At the moment we are considering Lilith.

Hubby likes the name, and we've done a fair bit of digging to find out more about the name's origin and meaning. However, hubby is wary about the potential of the name becoming a burden, drawing questions and unwelcome attention, once older.

So, does anyone have the name, or know someone teenaged or older with the name, who is happy to share their own experiences?

Thank you 😁

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.

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

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.

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.

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 know a Lilith and she’s lovely.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Thanks everyone, we've decided to go with Lilith for our lo

She’s not a nice demon.

Isn't that the point of demons?

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