Entry № 5712 · English origin

Lala Lala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Tulip / song (Lala Anthony + La La Land)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "tulip / song (lala anthony + la la land)".

Lala has multiple roots: in Persian/Hindi lala means "tulip" (also a Hindu honorific meaning "beloved"); in modern English it carries musical-association as a singsong syllable. La La Land (2016) — Damien Chazelle's romantic musical with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling; won six Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Actress (Stone), and Best Original Song for "City of Stars" — tied the record for most Oscar nominations (14) with All About Eve (1950) and Titanic (1997); famously had Best Picture mistakenly announced before Moonlight won; grossed $447 million worldwide. Lala Kent — Vanderpump Rules personality. Lala Tribbiani — Friends episode character.

Tulip / song.

The name in its native script.

Lala
Transliteration
Lala
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑː.lɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lala stands.

Lala 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.

Lalas before her.

Real people
La La Anthony
American TV personality and actress.
born 1979
In fiction
La La Land
2016 Damien Chazelle film.
2016

Names connected to Lala.

The number behind Lala.

8

The Visionary

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