Entry № 2765 · Hebrew origin

Eglah Eglah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EG-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Heifer (David's wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "heifer (david's wife)".

Eglah (עֶגְלָה) means "heifer" or "young cow" in Hebrew. In 2 Samuel 3:5, Eglah was the sixth wife of King David and mother of Ithream — listed at the end of David's six wives at Hebron.

Rabbinic tradition identifies her with Michal.

Heifer. David's sixth wife.

The name in its native script.

עֶגְלָה
Transliteration
ʿEglāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈɛɡ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Eglah stands.

Eglah 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.

Eglahs before her.

Real people
Eglah
David's wife.
In fiction
Eglah
2 Samuel 3:5.
Hebrew Bible

Names connected to Eglah.

The number behind Eglah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Eglah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.