Mahalath (מָחֲלַת) is the Hebrew word for "harp" or "stringed instrument." In Genesis 28:9, Mahalath was the daughter of Ishmael whom Esau married. The term appears in some Psalm superscriptions as a musical direction.
Rare but iconic in biblical scholarship.
Mahalath 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahalath reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.