Tehillah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- te-HEE-la
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,690 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Tehillah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “praise, song of praise”. In 2025 it ranked 1,690th for girls in the UK (18 babies) and 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Tehillah mean?
Hebrew
“praise, song of praise”
Hebrew for praise; its plural, Tehillim, is the Hebrew name for the Book of Psalms.
Is Tehillah a girl's or a boy's name?
Tehillah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the UK and 24 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Tehillah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,690th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 438% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were named Tehillah, making it the 1,690th most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Tehillah of any year since it first appeared, in 2002.
Half of all the girls named Tehillah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 21 girls in the UK were given Tehillah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,314, up from #1,690 for this spelling alone.
- Tehillah 18
- Tehilah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,639th in England and Wales.
Tehillah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #1,690 |
| 2024 | 12 | #2,323 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
How popular is Tehillah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,237th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24 about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 138% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Tehillah, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Tehillah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Tehillah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,245 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,175 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
Names like Tehillah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Aaliyah, Safa, Ayah, Hadassah, Aaminah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Raya, Taliyah, Abeeha, Zainab
Names related to Tehillah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Tehillah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/tehillah, updated 20 October 2026.