Sahla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: smooth, simple, fluent, facile, easy, even; fem
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sahla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 91K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sahla itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,716 named Shahla, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shahla in US United States, SE Sweden, PK Pakistan and 1 more and Şahla in TM Turkmenistan, AZ Azerbaijan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
smooth, simple, fluent, facile, easy, even; fem. of Sahl. Sahla bint Suhayl: a sahaabia
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sahla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,716as Shahla | 1 in 194K | 1.7K | Shahla | 54 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Shahla | 11 |
| TM Turkmenistan | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Şahla | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 408as Shahla | 1 in 25K | 408 | Shahla | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 843K | listed | Shahla | 34 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Sahla | 9 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Şahla | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 81as Shahla | 1 in 72K | 81 | — | — |
1,716 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sahla is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, smooth, simple, fluent, soft, easy; feminine of Sahl
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Richard Sahlab. 1855ATAustrian concert violinist (1855–1931)
- Richard Sahlab. 1900DEGerman equestrian
- Fonda Sahlab. 1979NLformer politician from the Netherlands
- Soumaya Sahlab. 1983NLpolitical scientist from the Netherlands
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #49,289 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sahla come from?
- smooth, simple, fluent, facile, easy, even; fem. of Sahl. Sahla bint Suhayl: a sahaabia Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Sahla?
- A machine transcription gives /səɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Sahla mean?
- Recorded meaning: smooth, simple, fluent, facile, easy, even; fem.
- Is Sahla a male or female name?
- Sahla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sahla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Shahla, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sahla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,716 people named Shahla in 2020, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sahla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sahlaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sahla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.