Entry № 7152 · Arabic origin

Najla Najla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAJ-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Wide-eyed, large beautiful eyes"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "wide-eyed, large beautiful eyes".

Najla (نجلاء) is the Arabic word for "wide-eyed" or "having large, beautiful eyes" — a classical Arabic compliment in poetry.

Najla Said (born 1974) is the Lebanese-American writer, daughter of Edward Said.

Wide-eyed. The Arabic poetic compliment.

The name in its native script.

نجلاء
Transliteration
Najlāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈnædʒ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Najla stands.

Najla 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.

Najlas before her.

Real people
Najla Said
Lebanese-American writer.
born 1974
In fiction
Najla
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Najla.

The number behind Najla.

2

The Peacemaker

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