Entry № 5714 · Turkish origin

Lale Lale — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAH-leh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
"Tulip"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Turkish/Persian)

A name that means "tulip".

Lale (لاله in Persian) is the Turkish and Persian word for "tulip." The tulip is the national flower of Turkey and was first cultivated by Ottoman gardeners.

Lale is widely used in Turkey, Iran, and the Turkish diaspora.

Tulip. The Ottoman national flower.

The name in its native script.

Lale · لاله
Transliteration
Lale
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑː.leɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lale stands.

Lale 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.

Lales before her.

Real people
Lale Andersen
German singer of "Lili Marleen".
1905 – 1972
In fiction
Lale
Common in Turkish fiction.

Names connected to Lale.

The number behind Lale.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lale reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.