Entry № 9485 · Mesopotamian origin

Shala Shala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mesopotamian
Meaning
"Goddess of grain and compassion"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of grain and compassion".

Shala was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with grain, abundance and compassion — sometimes pictured holding an ear of wheat.

Goddess of grain and compassion — a Mesopotamian name.

The name in its native script.

Shala
Transliteration
Shala
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃa.la /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shala stands.

Shala 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.

Shalas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Shala.

The number behind Shala.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shala reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.