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Nazila Nazila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-ZEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Delicate"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "delicate".

Nazila is from the Persian نازیلا (Nāzilā — delicate, graceful, charming, refined) — from Persian nāz (grace/charm). Nazila is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian heritage. Persian feminine name reflecting Persian aesthetic heritage.

Delicate.

The name in its native script.

نازیلا
Transliteration
Nāzilā
Pronunciation
/ nəˈziː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nazila stands.

Nazila 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.

Nazilas before her.

Real people
Nazila Fathi
Iranian-American journalist + former New York Times Iran correspondent 1992-2009 + The Lonely War 2014 memoir.
Contemporary
In fiction
Nazila Ghanea
UK-based Bahá'í professor of International Human Rights Law at Oxford.

Names connected to Nazila.

The number behind Nazila.

9

The Giver

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