Entry № 4790 · Other origin

Jaleh Jaleh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ZHAH-leh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dew (Jaleh Esfahani Forough Farrokhzad's mother)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "dew (jaleh esfahani forough farrokhzad's mother)".

Jaleh is from the Persian ژاله (Zhāleh — dew, dewdrop, fresh frost). Jaleh is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian poetic heritage. subject of pan-Persian poetic-natural heritage. Persian feminine name reflecting Persian literary heritage.

Dew (Jaleh Esfahani Forough Farrokhzad's mother).

The name in its native script.

ژاله
Transliteration
Zhāleh
Pronunciation
/ ˈʒɑː.lɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jaleh stands.

Jaleh 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.

Jalehs before her.

Real people
Jaleh Esfahani
Iranian poet + pioneering Iranian woman poet + ~10 poetry collections + pre-revolution Iranian feminist literary heritage.
1921 – 2007
In fiction
Jaleh Mostafa Tabrizi
Iranian-Azerbaijani feminist activist + Vatan-e Man My Homeland.
1909 – 1947

Names connected to Jaleh.

The number behind Jaleh.

9

The Giver

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