Almah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Almah

What is the meaning of the name Almah ?

The baby name Almah is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced AL-mah (IPA: /ˈæl.mə/ or /ˈæl.mɑ/).

Almah is Hebrew in Origin.

Almah is a Hebrew feminine name from the biblical noun ‘almāh (עלמה) meaning “young woman, maiden.” The term appears in Isaiah 7:14 and elsewhere, later linked in translation with “virgin.” As a given name, Almah preserves the Hebrew sense while touching the wider name Alma, whose Latin root alma conveys “nurturing, kind.”

Usage is modest in modern Hebrew and Jewish communities and rare in English-speaking countries, where Alma rose after the Crimean War’s Battle of the Alma (1854). Almah occurs in some Victorian records and today appeals to parents seeking a distinctive, biblically grounded variant. Variants and related forms include Alma; historical transliterations Almeh/Almah in an Arabic context come from ʿālima, “learned woman,” once applied to educated singers. Overall associations: “maiden,” “young woman,” and, by Latin parallel, “nurturing.”