Entry № 11455 · Arabic origin

Wallada Wallada — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wahl-LAH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Mother (the Andalusian poet-princess)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "mother (the andalusian poet-princess)".

Wallada (ولادة) means "mother, child-bearer" in Arabic. The most celebrated female poet of Al-Andalus.

Her statue stands in Córdoba alongside Ibn Zaydun's.

Mother (the Andalusian poet-princess) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

ولادة
Transliteration
Wallāda
Pronunciation
/ wəˈlɑː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wallada stands.

Wallada 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.

Walladas before her.

Real people
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
Andalusian princess-poet.
994 – 1091
In fiction
Wallada
Subject of Ibn Zaydun's poems.

Names connected to Wallada.

The number behind Wallada.

9

The Giver

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