Lilith

Lilith is moonlight through a slightly open window. In Jewish folklore she appears as Adam's insubordinate first wife, later woven into Mesopotamian demon lore and medieval amulets; the Hebrew root is often linked to laylah, "night." For centuries the name was whispered, not given — until feminist scholars reclaimed her in the 1970s, and a wave of parents followed. Lilith broke into the US top 1000 only in 2010 and has surged to 256, one of the fastest-climbing girl names of the decade. Velvet consonants, a sharp final th. Gothic, literary, and slightly dangerous in the way good names sometimes are.