Entry № 5711 · Berber origin

Lalla Lalla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Berber
Meaning
"Lady (Berber/Arabic; Kashmir's poet-saint)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Berber)

A name that means "lady (berber/arabic; kashmir's poet-saint)".

Lalla is the Berber-Arabic honorific for "lady" or "holy woman" — used widely across North Africa and the Islamic Mediterranean. Lalla Ded (c. 1320-1392) was the great mystic poet-saint of Kashmir — her vakhs (verse-couplets) are the foundation of Kashmiri literature, revered by both Hindus and Muslims.

Used widely across the Maghreb and Kashmir.

Lady. The Berber-Arabic; Lalla Ded the mystic poet-saint of Kashmir.

The name in its native script.

Lalla
Transliteration
Lalla
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑːl.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lalla stands.

Lalla 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.

Lallas before her.

Real people
Lalla Ded
Kashmiri mystic poet-saint.
c. 1320 – 1392
In fiction
Lalla
Featured in J.M.G. Le Clézio's Désert.
1980

Names connected to Lalla.

The number behind Lalla.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lalla reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.