Entry № 3832 · Pashto origin

Gulalai Gulalai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ goo-LAH-lai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Pashto
Meaning
"Rose-like, beautiful"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Pashto)

A name that means "rose-like, beautiful".

Gulalai Ismail (born 1986), the Pakistani human rights activist, is a contemporary bearer.

Rose-like. The Pashto flower.

The name in its native script.

ګلالۍ
Transliteration
Gulalai
Pronunciation
/ ɡuˈlɑː.laɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gulalai stands.

Gulalai 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.

Gulalais before her.

Real people
Gulalai Ismail
Pakistani human rights activist.
born 1986
In fiction
Gulalai
Common in Pashto literature.

Names connected to Gulalai.

The number behind Gulalai.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gulalai reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.