Given name
Shahla
“having bluish-black eyes”
Shahla is used as a given name. One Arabic interpretation is “having bluish-black eyes.”
Original Arabicشَهْلَاء
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “having bluish-black eyes.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shahla through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 99
- 0 boys · 99 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,716 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shahla’s family of names
Shahla has a related form in Shahlaa. Shahla has a related form in Shahlah. In English usage, Shahla has a conventional equivalent in the Uzbek form SHAHLO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Shahla has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Arabic roots to each of them.
Arabicwhere Shahla comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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People named Shahla
- Shahla RiahiIranian actress (1926–2019)1927–2019
- Shehla RashidIndian student activistborn 1988
- Shahla HumbatovaAzerbaijani Human rights lawyerborn 1976
- Shahla ZiaPakistani lawyer and activist1947–2005
- Chahla ChafiqIranian writer and sociologistborn 1954
- Shahla LahijiIranian writer1942–2024
- Shahlo MahmudovaUzbekistani politicianborn 2000
- Shahla AtaAfghan politician1959–2015
- Shahla AghapourIranian-born German visual artistborn 1976
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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