Entry № 10285 · Choctaw origin

Tallulah Tallulah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-LOO-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Choctaw
Meaning
"Leaping water"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Choctaw)

A name that means "leaping water".

Tallulah is from the Choctaw word taluha, meaning "leaping water." It is the name of Tallulah Falls, Georgia, where waterfalls cascade through a gorge.

Today Tallulah is rising — currently in the U.S. top 700.

Leaping water — a Choctaw name.

The name in its native script.

Tallulah
Transliteration
Tallulah
Pronunciation
/ təˈluː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tallulah stands.

Tallulah 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.

Tallulahs before her.

Real people
Tallulah Bankhead
American actress.
1902 – 1968
Tallulah Willis
Daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.
born 1994
In fiction

Names connected to Tallulah.

The number behind Tallulah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tallulah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.