Entry № 7468 · Tamil origin

Nilaa Nilaa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nih-LAA /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"The moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the moon".

Nilaa is the moon — cool, calm and luminous. It is among the tenderest words a Tamil parent reaches for, often spoken to a child at night.

The moon — a Tamil name.

The name in its native script.

நிலா
Transliteration
Nilā
Pronunciation
/ ni.ˈlaː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nilaa stands.

Nilaa 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.

Nilaas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nilaa.

The number behind Nilaa.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nilaa reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.