Praise or song of praise
Derived from the Hebrew word 'tehillah', which refers to a song of praise or a hymn. It is the singular form of 'Tehillim', the Hebrew name for the Book of Psalms.
Less common today
Tehilla isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #3,772 in 2021.
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
Israeli poet and writer
The titular elderly, pious woman in S.Y. Agnon's novella · Tehila
