MEANING & HISTORY
What does Dahlia mean?
Dahlia is documented in English as a personal name taken from the flower, with that use belonging to the nineteenth-century flower-name tradition. The immediate meaning is the dahlia plant or bloom, not a combination of unrelated syllables.
A floral name can carry a family's own visual, garden or memorial associations; those associations should remain distinct from the dictionary's account of how the plant word became a given name.
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Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Origin and name formation
English
Dictionary accounts by language
English
From the flower dahlia in the 19th century.
A female given name from English.
Wiktionary: Dahlia (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
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Names in this collection
- Daria♀Feminine form of Darius
- Delia♀Of Delos
- Amalia♀From the Germanic amal element: vigorous or unceasing
- Amelia♀From Amalia and the Germanic amal name-element
- Basilia♀Feminine Basil-name form; royal
- Celia♀Feminine of Caelius; also a short form of Cecilia
- Dakila·Great; outstanding, as a Philippine word
- Dale♂Valley
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Recorded use
- OpenHalalan / COMELEC · 2001
- 2 elected-candidate records ·
DAHLIA
· CSV row 7,446 · ODbL 1.0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.