Dahlia

Dalia is a common feminine name in Arabic (Arabic: داليا) and Hebrew (Hebrew: דַּלְיָה). The name in Arabic stems from the word for grape vine and in Hebrew from word for [tip of a ] branch, especially that of a grapevine or an olive tree. There are several biblical and Talmudic references. However, confusion arose among Hebrew speakers due to the similarity to the name of the flower Dahlia, named in honor of Anders Dahl, a Swedish botanist, by Spanish naturalist Antonio José de Cavanilles, director of the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid of 18th century.
It is also a popular feminine name in Lithuania, meaning 'destiny' or 'fate' and derived from Lithuanian pagan traditions. Dalia (mythology) is also said to mean "a strong branch."
Notable people with the name include:
Dalia Contreras (born 1983), Venezuelan taekwando practitioner
Dalia Dorner (born 1934), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel
Dalia El Behery (born 1978), Egyptian actress, model, TV presenter, and Miss Egypt 1990
Dalia Grybauskaitė (born 1956), politician and current President of Lithuania
Dalia Hertz, Israeli poet
Dalia Itzik (born 1952), Israeli politician
Dale Messick (1906-2005), born Dalia Messick, creator of the comic strip Brenda Starr
Dalia Mogahed (born 1974), American Muslim scholar and adviser to President Barack Obama
Dalia Rabin-Pelossof (born 1950), Israeli politician

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1804, named 1791 by Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles for Anders Dahl (1751-1789), Swedish botanist and pupil of Linnaeus, who discovered it in Mexico in 1788. The likelihood that a true blue variety of the flower never could be cultivated was first proposed by French-Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, and noted in English by 1835; hence blue dahlia, figurative expression for "something impossible or unattainable" (1843).

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Dweller in the valley. The Dahlia is the national flower of Mexico. Swedish word dal means: valley; and Dahlia is often referred to as valley flower.

Dalia

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Black Dahlia	1924	Nickname given to murder victim Elizabeth Short
2	Dahlia Poland	1997	Indonesian actress
3	Kat Dahlia	1990	American rapper and songwriter
4	Blag Dahlia	1966	American singer
5	Dahlia Lithwick		Canadian wrtier and editor
6	Dahlia Salem	1971	American actress
7	Dahlia Wasfi	1971	American-Iraqi activist
8	Aunt Dahlia		Fictional character in P.G. Wodehouse canon
9	Dahlia Ravikovitch	1936	Israeli poet
10	Dahlia Grey	1972	American pornographic actress
11	Dahlia Sky	1989	American pornographic actress
12	Dahlia Pessemiers	1975	Belgian actress
13	Dahlia Malkhi		Israeli-American computer scientist
14	Dahlia Duhaney	1970	Athletics competitor
15	Dahlia Mokbel	1969	Egyptian synchronised swimmer
16	Dahlia Gredinger	1926	Israeli scientist
17	Thomas Dahlia	1990	French swimmer
18	Dahlia Elsayed
19	Dahlia Schweitzer		Writer and academic
20	Iis Dahlia	1972