Mahala

Where Mahala comes from

Mahala 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #352
    25 babies named Mahala — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,034.
  4. 1912
    Mahala Ashley Dickerson born
    American lawyer and activist
  5. 1939
    Mahala Andrews born
    paleontologist
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Mahala Andrews · paleontologist, 1939–1997
  • Mahala Ashley Dickerson · American lawyer and activist, 1912–2007

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.