Entry № 10646 · Pitjantjatjara origin

Tjala Tjala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TYAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Pitjantjatjara
Meaning
"Honey ant"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Pitjantjatjara)

A name that means "honey ant".

Tjala is a Pitjantjatjara (Aboriginal Australian) word for "honey ant" — the desert insect whose abdomen holds nectar, an important traditional food source.

Tjala is used in some Aboriginal Australian families.

Honey ant. The Aboriginal desert nectar.

The name in its native script.

Tjala
Transliteration
Tjala
Pronunciation
/ ˈtjɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tjala stands.

Tjala 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.

Tjalas before her.

Real people
Tjala Arts
Aboriginal art centre in Amata, South Australia.
In fiction
Tjala
Common in Aboriginal art.

Names connected to Tjala.

The number behind Tjala.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tjala reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.