Sahlah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAH-lah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
- Style
- New arrival
Sahlah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “smooth, easy, gentle”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Sahlah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Sahla; feminine of sahl
“smooth, easy, gentle”
Meaning borrowed from Sahla.
Is Sahlah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sahlah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sahlah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 367% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Sahlah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls.
In 2025, 13 girls in the UK were given Sahlah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,870, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Sahla 8
- Sahlah 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Sahlah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 2 | #7,411 |
Names like Sahlah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Nusaybah, Ayah, Sumayyah, Hiba, Hafsa, Izzah, Zainab, Safaa, Rahma, Azeemah, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Sahlah
Sahla
Names related to Sahlah
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, “Sahlah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sahlah, updated 20 October 2026.