Zillah

Hebrew

"shade"

Zillah Origin and Meaning

The name Zillah is a girl's name meaning "shade".

A light, bohemian-sounding biblical name, mentioned in the bible as a wife of Lamech, one of the first men.

Zillah Rank in US Top 1000

# 901 in the US

Zillah Popularity

• 1864 Nameberry 2019

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Famous People Named Zillah

• Zillah second wife of Lamech, Cain's offspring (Genesis 4:19)
• Cecilia "Zillah" Andrén Swedish ventriloquist of duo Zillah & Totte
• Zillah R. Eisenstein American feminist scholar
• Zillah Minx English musician of punk band Rubella Ballet
• Zillah May Johnson, daughter of actor Wil Johnson; twin of sister Rain

Zillah in Pop Culture

• Zillah servant to Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
• Zillah Horsefall character in Shirley (1849) by Charlotte Bronte; "nurse attending Robert Moore, a giant dram,drinker"
• Zillah Keith Millie's sister in " A Life of Faith" book series
• Zillah a vampire in "Lost Souls" by Poppy Z Brite
• Zillah wife of Abel in Lord Byron's "Cain"
• Zillah character in Flora Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford"
• Zyll Zylle, Zillie, and Zillah, characters in Madeleine L'Engle's "A Swiftly Tilting Planet
• "Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin" (The Gashlycrumb Tinies)
• Zilla/Zillah/Tsila/Tzila/Tzillah means "shade" in Hebrew