Entry № 7352 · Italian origin

Nella Nella — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"A shining light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a shining light".

Nella is a name of Italian origin, meaning a shining light.

A shining light — a Italian name.

The name in its native script.

Nella
Transliteration
Nella
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Nella stands.

Nella 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.

Nellas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nella.

The number behind Nella.

8

The Visionary

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