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Shahla Shahla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dark-eyed beauty"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "dark-eyed beauty".

Shahla is from the Persian شهلا (Shahlā — dark-eyed, eyes with a bluish-black tint). Shahla is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian poetic heritage.

Dark-eyed beauty (Persian).

The name in its native script.

شهلا
Transliteration
Shahlā
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shahla stands.

Shahla 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.

Shahlas before her.

Real people
Shahla Sherkat
Iranian journalist + editor-in-chief of Zanan magazine 1992-2008 + pioneering Iranian women's magazine.
born 1956
In fiction
Shahla Riahi
Iranian actress + pioneering pre-revolution Iranian cinema.
1926 – 2018

Names connected to Shahla.

The number behind Shahla.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shahla reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.