Delilah, a beautiful biblical name for girls, is derived from a Hebrew word meaning "delicate" or "weak." In the Bible, Delilah is a Philistine woman who betrays Samson to the Philistines. She is a central figure in Samson's final love story, which is told in the "Book of Judges." It was a mainstay in the Social Security Administration's top 1,000 for girl names throughout much of the 1900s, but didn't truly catch on in the U.S. until the 2000s. It has now been a top-200 girl's name every year since 2008 and a top-100 girl's name every year since 2018. It's also the name singer Cher Lloyd gave her daughter Delilah-Rae, born in 2018, and the name actress-model Kimberly Stewart chose for her daughter Delilah Genoveva, born in 2020.
