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Dilhara Dilhara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ deel-HAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Heart-stealer"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Sinhalese)

A name that means "heart-stealer".

Dilhara is from the Sinhalese දිල්හාරා (Dilhārā — dil heart + hārā stealer/charmer — heart-stealer, heart-captivator). Dilhara is one of the Sri Lankan feminine names — central to traditional Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist + Sinhalese cultural heritage. Sinhalese feminine name.

Heart-stealer (Sinhalese-Sri Lankan).

The name in its native script.

දිල්හාරා
Transliteration
Dilhārā
Pronunciation
/ diːlˈhɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dilhara stands.

Dilhara 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.

Dilharas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dilhara
Sinhalese heart-stealer.

Names connected to Dilhara.

The number behind Dilhara.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dilhara reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.