Entry № 4146 · Arabic origin

Hazrat Mahal Hazrat Mahal — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAZ-rat mah-HAHL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Begum who led 1857 rebellion in Awadh"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Urdu)

A name that means "begum who led 1857 rebellion in awadh".

Begum Hazrat Mahal (1820-1879) — "Presence of the Palace" — was a courtesan who became Begum of Awadh (Oudh) through her marriage to Nawab Wajid Ali Shah.

Honored on Indian and Pakistani postage; her tomb at Jama Masjid in Kathmandu is a Nepalese national monument.

Presence of the Palace.

The name in its native script.

حضرت محل
Transliteration
Hażrat Maḥal
Pronunciation
/ ˈhæz.rət məˈhɑːl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hazrat Mahal stands.

Hazrat Mahal 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.

Hazrat Mahals before her.

Real people
Begum Hazrat Mahal
Begum of Awadh; 1857 rebellion leader.
1820 – 1879
In fiction
Hazrat Mahal
Subject of Pakistani and Indian historical novels.

Names connected to Hazrat Mahal.

The number behind Hazrat Mahal.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hazrat Mahal reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.