Sahla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAH-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Sahla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “smooth, easy, gentle”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Sahla mean?
Arabic: feminine of sahl
“smooth, easy, gentle”
Is Sahla a girl's or a boy's name?
Sahla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sahla in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Sahla, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,630th.
2025 had the most girls named Sahla of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Sahla in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were given Sahla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,870, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Sahla 8
- Sahlah 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Sahla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
Names like Sahla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Abeeha, Zainab, Ayah, Safaa, Huda, Sama, Safiya, Khadija
Other spellings of Sahla
Sahlah
Names related to Sahla
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sahla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sahla, updated 20 October 2026.