Entry № 9353 · Hebrew origin

Selah Selah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Pause, to lift up"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "pause, to lift up".

Selah (סֶלָה) is a Hebrew word that appears 71 times in the Book of Psalms — its exact meaning is debated.

Selah is rising in the U.S., particularly in evangelical Christian families. Today it sits in the U.S. top 400 and is climbing fast.

Pause, to lift up — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

סֶלָה
Transliteration
Selāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈsiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Selah stands.

Selah 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.

Selahs before her.

Real people
Selah Marley
American model, granddaughter of Bob Marley.
born 1998
In fiction

Names connected to Selah.

The number behind Selah.

9

The Giver

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