Entry № 7674 · Arabic origin

Nylah Nylah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NY-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Successful, achiever"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "successful, achiever".

In its modern spelling it has become a warm, popular favourite in the English-speaking world.

Bright and capable, Nylah is a name of success.

An achiever — bright and modern.

The name in its native script.

Nylah
Transliteration
Nylah
Pronunciation
/ ˈnaɪ.la /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nylah stands.

Nylah 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.

Nylahs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Nylah.

The number behind Nylah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nylah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.