Entry № 7112 · Arabic origin

Nadira Nadira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-DEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Rare / precious"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "rare / precious".

Nadira is from the Arabic Nādira.

Rare / precious — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

نادرة
Transliteration
Nādira
Pronunciation
/ nəˈdiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nadira stands.

Nadira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nadiras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nadira Begum / Mughal
Nadira Begum 17th c. wife of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh + Dara Shikoh eldest son of Shah Jahan + executed by Aurangzeb 1659 + Mughal heritage
Mughal Empire

Names connected to Nadira.

The number behind Nadira.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nadira reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.