Entry № 2827 · Hebrew origin

Elah Elah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"A terebinth tree"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a terebinth tree".

Elah is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning a terebinth tree.

A terebinth tree — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Elah
Transliteration
Elah
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Elah stands.

Elah 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.

Elahs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Elah.

The number behind Elah.

8

The Visionary

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