Entry № 9638 · Hebrew origin

Shua Shua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHOO-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Wealth, prosperity (Judah's wife)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "wealth, prosperity (judah's wife)".

Shua (שׁוּעַ) means "wealth" or "prosperity" in Hebrew. In Genesis 38:2, Shua was the Canaanite woman whose unnamed daughter married Judah, son of Jacob — making her the grandmother of Er, Onan, and Shelah, ancestors of the tribe of Judah.

Also rendered as Bath-Shua ("daughter of Shua").

Wealth. The Canaanite matriarch of Judah's line.

The name in its native script.

שׁוּעַ
Transliteration
Šûaʿ
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃuː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shua stands.

Shua 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.

Shuas before her.

Real people
Shua
Judah's Canaanite wife.
In fiction
Shua
Genesis 38.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Shua.

The number behind Shua.

4

The Builder

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