Entry № 1410 · Hebrew origin

Beulah Beulah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BYOO-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Married, espoused"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "married, espoused".

Beulah (בְּעוּלָה) is a Hebrew word meaning "married" or "espoused." In Isaiah 62:4, God promises that Israel, formerly called "Forsaken," will be renamed "Beulah" — meaning that the land will be wedded to its God.

Beulah was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The American actress Beulah Bondi (1888-1981) was a notable bearer. Today the name is rare but rising slowly with the broader return of vintage biblical names.

Espoused. The biblical name of the promised land.

The name in its native script.

בְּעוּלָה
Transliteration
Bĕʿūlāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈbjuː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Beulah stands.

Beulah does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Beulahs before her.

Real people
Beulah Bondi
American actress, Oscar-nominated.
1888 – 1981
Beulah Henry
American inventor.
1887 – 1973
In fiction
Beulah Land
Spiritual / paradise in Christian hymnody.
1875 hymn by Edgar Page Stites

Names connected to Beulah.

The number behind Beulah.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Beulah reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.