Lalla

Where Lalla comes from

Lalla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #921 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1888
    Peak, #894
    9 babies named Lalla — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    Lalla Carlsen born
    Norwegian actor and singer
  4. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1956
    Lalla Essaydi born
    Moroccan photographer and painter
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lalla Carlsen · Norwegian actor and singer, 1889–1967
  • Lalla Essaydi · Moroccan photographer and painter, born 1956
  • Lalla Malika Issoufou · First Lady of Niger, born 1975
  • Lalla Masuda · Moroccan political figure in the Saadi Dynasty, 1532–1591
  • Lalla Miranda · Australian opera singer, 1874–1944

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.