Entry № 10428 · Hebrew origin

Tehilah Tehilah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ teh-hee-LAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Praise / psalm"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "praise / psalm".

Tehilah is from the Hebrew təhillāh (תְּהִלָּה — praise, psalm, song of worship). Tehilah Friedman — modern Israeli figure. Tehilah Eisenstadt — modern Israeli-American figure. Tehilah's iconic Psalms tradition — the iconic Tehillim recitation appears at every major Jewish life cycle event including bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals across global Jewish communities. Princess Tehilah — modern Israeli religious heritage naming.

Praise / psalm (Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

תְּהִלָּה
Transliteration
Təhillāh
Pronunciation
/ təhiːˈlɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tehilah stands.

Tehilah 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.

Tehilahs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tehilah
Hebrew praise / Psalms tradition.

Names connected to Tehilah.

The number behind Tehilah.

9

The Giver

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