Amala

Meaning of Amala

Amala, employed exclusively as a female given name, traces its provenance principally to Sanskrit, in which it signifies “unstained” or “pure,” conveying in its lexical root a classical aspiration toward moral and spiritual integrity. In certain Arabic contexts, the form emerges as a feminine adaptation of the root amal (“hope” or “aspiration”), thereby enriching the name’s semantic field through cross-cultural interplay. Phonetically, it is rendered in American English as uh-MAH-luh (/əˈmɑlə/) and in British English as uh-MAY-luh (/əˈmeɪlə/). In the United States, its adoption has remained consistently modest, with annual tallies of female births bearing the name ranging from six to twenty-eight between 1991 and 2024, culminating in a 2024 occurrence of seventeen and a national ranking of 933. Such statistical contours underscore its rarefied status within contemporary Anglo-American nomenclature, wherein its elegant tonal simplicity belies a rich etymological pedigree.

Pronunciation

American English

• Pronunced as uh-MAH-luh (/əˈmɑlə/)

British English

• Pronunced as uh-MAY-luh (/əˈmeɪlə/)

• Amalia
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