Entry № 7139 · Arabic origin

Nailah Nailah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NIE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Successful achiever"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "successful achiever".

Nailah is from the Arabic Nāʾila.

Successful achiever — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

نائلة
Transliteration
Nāʾila
Pronunciation
/ ˈnaɪ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nailah stands.

Nailah 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.

Nailahs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nailah al-Kalbiyya / First Fitna
Arabic achiever + Nailah al-Kalbiyya wife of Caliph Uthman 644-656 + First Fitna civil war + Tabari History of the Prophets and Kings ~915 CE
Islamic history

Names connected to Nailah.

The number behind Nailah.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nailah reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.