Tallulah

tah-LOO-lah

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The name Tallulah means “leaping water, princess of abundance.” It comes from the Native American language tradition.

Tallulah is believed to derive from a Choctaw or Creek word meaning leaping water, referring to waterfalls. Tallulah Falls in Georgia preserves this indigenous place name. The name captures the dynamic beauty and power of cascading water, which many Native American cultures regarded as the voice of the living earth.

The only source retrieved for Tallulah is a brief Wiktionary entry identifying it as the name of a river in Georgia; it points readers to a Wikipedia etymology section that was not itself retrieved, so the specific leaping water or princess of abundance gloss given elsewhere is not confirmed by anything found here.

What the source does support is that Tallulah is a place name tied to a Georgia river, consistent with the well-known Tallulah Falls, though nothing further about its adoption as a given name is documented in the material retrieved.

• Tallulah Bankhead (legendary American stage and screen actress)
• Tallulah Falls (waterfall in northeast Georgia)

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