Girl · Hebrew
Mahala
Say it: muh-HAY-luh
Meaning
Uncertain. From the biblical Mahlah or Mahalath; the root may mean 'weakness, sickness' or something else entirely, and scholars do not agree.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Common in rural America in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1880s
In the United States
- 2,765 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1882, about 1 in 4,300 girls
- 23 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Biblical WorldAbout 1200 BC to AD 100
- The Colonial Americas1500 to 1800
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Mahalah, Mahlah
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Famous bearers
- Mahlah, one of the five daughters of Zelophehad in Numbers
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Where this comes from
- The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
- Colonial records of the Americas
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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