Given name
Ahalya
Ahalya is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, a woman who was turned to stone by her husband.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “in Hinduism, a woman who was turned to stone by her husband.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ahalya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2007.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ahalya’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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