Entry № 6248 · Hebrew origin

Mahlah Mahlah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Sickness, weakness (Zelophehad's daughter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "sickness, weakness (zelophehad's daughter)".

Mahlah (מַחְלָה) means "weakness" in Hebrew. In Numbers 27, Mahlah was the eldest of the five daughters of Zelophehad — who together successfully petitioned Moses for the right to inherit land, establishing women's inheritance rights in Israelite law.

Mahlah is rare but iconic among the daughters of Zelophehad.

Sickness, weakness (Zelophehad's daughter) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

מַחְלָה
Transliteration
Maḥlāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mahlah stands.

Mahlah 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.

Mahlahs before her.

Real people
Mahlah
Eldest daughter of Zelophehad.
In fiction
Mahlah
Daughter of Zelophehad in Numbers 27.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Mahlah.

The number behind Mahlah.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahlah reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.