Entry № 369 · Igbo origin

Ala Ala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Igbo
Meaning
"The earth goddess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the earth goddess".

Ala is the Igbo earth goddess of morality, fertility and creativity — one of the most revered of deities.

Grounded and life-giving, her name holds the whole living earth.

The earth goddess — a Igbo name.

The name in its native script.

Ala
Transliteration
Ala
Pronunciation
/ ˈa.la /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ala stands.

Ala does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Alas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ala.

The number behind Ala.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ala reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.