Entry № 10427 · Hebrew origin

Tehila Tehila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ teh-HEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Praise, glory"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "praise, glory".

Tehila (תְּהִלָּה) is the Hebrew word for "praise" or "glory" — the Hebrew name for the Book of Psalms is Tehillim ("praises"). A modern Israeli feminine name.

Tehila is widely used in modern Israel.

Praise. The Hebrew Book of Psalms.

The name in its native script.

תְּהִלָּה
Transliteration
Təhīlāh
Pronunciation
/ təˈhiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tehila stands.

Tehila 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.

Tehilas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tehila
Heroine of S.Y. Agnon's story Tehilah.
1950 novella

Names connected to Tehila.

The number behind Tehila.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tehila reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.