Entry № 7308 · Arabic origin

Nayla Nayla — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAY-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Achiever / winner"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "achiever / winner".

Nayla is from the Arabic Nāʾila.

Achiever / winner — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Nayla stands.

Nayla 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.

Naylas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nayla Tueni / Lebanese press
Nayla Tueni Lebanese journalist + daughter of Gebran Tueni assassinated 2005 + Lebanese press-freedom + Nayla Mouawad Lebanese minister
Lebanese heritage

Names connected to Nayla.

The number behind Nayla.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nayla reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.