Zillah
Hebrew
"shade"
By Clare Green
Updated Wed Nov 29 2023
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.
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Famous People Named Zillah
- Zillahsecond wife of Lamech, Cain's offspring (Genesis 4:19)
- Cecilia "Zillah" AndrénSwedish ventriloquist of duo Zillah & Totte
- Zillah R. EisensteinAmerican feminist scholar
- Zillah MinxEnglish musician of punk band Rubella Ballet
- ZillahMay Johnson, daughter of actor Wil Johnson; twin of sister Rain
Zillah in Pop Culture
- Zillahservant to Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights"
- Zillah Horsefallcharacter in Shirley (1849) by Charlotte Bronte; "nurse attending Robert Moore, a giant dram,drinker"
- Zillah KeithMillie's sister in " A Life of Faith" book series
- Zillaha vampire in "Lost Souls" by Poppy Z Brite
- Zillahwife of Abel in Lord Byron's "Cain"
- Zillahcharacter in Flora Thompson's "Lark Rise to Candleford"
- ZyllZylle, 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/Tzillahmeans "shade" in Hebrew