Lilac is an Old French word for the lilac plant and the pale purple colour known as lilac. Lilac itself comes from the Persian nilak meaning Indigo which in turn comes from nila, a Sanskrit word meaning light blue.
Lilac was popular as a given name for girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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