Dahlia
Dahlia is a girl name of Scandinavian origin, meaning Valley flower.
What Dahlia means
Valley flower.
Dahlia sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Dahlia comes from
Scandinavian names carry Old Norse roots forward into modern Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, often in softened, shortened forms.
Dahlia is recorded as Scandinavian in origin. Browse other Scandinavian names.
How popular is Dahlia?
You will not find Dahlia in the top 100 girl names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Dahlia
Two ideas meet in Dahlia: flowers and growing things and the natural world. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Dahlia
These share Dahlia's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Daphne — The laurel tree.
- Defne — Laurel tree.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Iris — Rainbow; messenger of the gods.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Violet — The violet flower; the color purple.
- Acacia — Thorny tree; resurrection.
- Alani — Orange tree.
- Anthea — Flower; blossom.