Entry № 7138 · Arabic origin

Naila Naila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-ee-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Achiever"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "achiever".

Naila is from the Arabic Nāʾila.

Achiever — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

نائلة
Transliteration
Nāʾila
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑː.iː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Naila stands.

Naila 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.

Nailas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Naila Kabeer
Bangladeshi-British economist + feminist development economics + scholar of gender + South Asian development + Arab + South Asian heritage
Development economics

Names connected to Naila.

The number behind Naila.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Naila reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.