Given name
Dalila
“she weakened”
Dalila is a feminine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and 1 other language.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dalila goes back to Latin Dalila, meaning “she weakened.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Dalila is a variant of Dalia. Dalia has been associated with Arabic and Hebrew naming traditions. Dalila is a variant of Delilah. A possible origin is Hebrew, although the derivation remains uncertain.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Latin Dalila, from Biblical Hebrew דְּלִילָה (D'līla).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1944. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Dalila is a variant of Delilah. The history of Delilah gives this family its wider story. Delilah appears in biblical tradition, giving it a longstanding religious and cultural context.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Dalila through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6,042
- 0 boys · 6,042 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 207 babies
- 2025
- 139
- #1,528 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +16%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 139 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 1,528 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 15.9% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 207 in 2009. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (25). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 8,048 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dalila’s family of names
Dalila has a related form in Dalia. Dalila has a related form in Delilah. In French usage, Dalila has a conventional equivalent in the English form Delilah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dalila
- Dalila Di LazzaroItalian actress and writerborn 1953
- Dalila BelaCanadian actressborn 2001
- Dalila JakupovićSlovenian female tennis playerborn 1991
- Dalila AbdulkadirBahraini long-distance runnerborn 1998
- Dalila IppólitoArgentine association football playerborn 2002
- Dalila CarmoPortuguese actressborn 1974
- Dalila EnnadreMoroccan filmmaker (1966-2020)
- Dalila RodriguesPortuguese art historian and politicianborn 1960
- Dalila MeftahiTunisian actress
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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