Mahalaleel as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mahalaleel

What is the meaning of the name Mahalaleel ?

The baby name Mahalaleel is a Male name , 5 syllables long and is pronounced mə-hah-lə-LEEL (approx. IPA: /məˌhɑːləˈliːl/).

Mahalaleel is Hebrew in Origin.

Mahalaleel is a masculine biblical name from Hebrew Mahalal’el (מַהֲלַלְאֵל), built from mahalal “praise/renown” and ’el “God,” yielding the sense “praise of God” or “one renowned by God.” In the Hebrew Bible he is a pre-Flood patriarch in the Sethite line (Genesis 5; 1 Chronicles 1). The Septuagint renders it as Maleleel, a form echoed in the New Testament genealogy (Luke 3:37).

While rarely used as a personal name in later Jewish tradition, it entered English via Bible translations and saw occasional Puritan-era use in Britain and colonial New England, later receding to obscurity. Variant spellings include Mahalalel (scholarly and modern standard), Mahalaleel (King James tradition), Mahaleel, and Maleleel (Greek-based). Transliterations with an internal apostrophe, Mahalal’el, reflect the theophoric element. Informal English nicknames such as Hal or Lee are sometimes derived, but the full form remains distinctive and uncommon today.

⚙ Mahalaleel is an extremely rare name. Across our dataset of national birth registries and international name records, Mahalaleel appears only 10 times in total — found in 6 countries. If you're considering it, you'd be giving your child a name almost nobody else has.