Nahla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NAH-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,642 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #2,822 for girls
Nahla is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “a drink of water”. In 2025 it ranked 1,642nd for girls in the UK (19 babies) and 2,822nd for girls in the US (60 babies).
What does Nahla mean?
Arabic
“a drink of water”
A similar-sounding Arabic word, nahla, means bee; An-Nahl, 'The Bee', is the sixteenth surah of the Qur'an.
More on Wiktionary.
Is Nahla a girl's or a boy's name?
Nahla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the UK and 60 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nahla in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,642nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 55% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were named Nahla, making it the 1,642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 987th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 51 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nahla in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 101 girls in the UK were given Nahla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #436, up from #1,642 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,584th in England and Wales.
Nahla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #1,642 |
| 2024 | 15 | #1,953 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 34 | #1,066 |
| 2021 | 39 | #967 |
| 2020 | 37 | #987 |
| 2019 | 27 | #1,285 |
| 2018 | 40 | #978 |
| 2017 | 48 | #865 |
| 2016 | 51 | #826 |
| 2015 | 46 | #878 |
| 2014 | 34 | #1,100 |
| 2013 | 32 | #1,165 |
| 2012 | 28 | #1,259 |
| 2011 | 22 | #1,467 |
| 2010 | 21 | #1,527 |
| 2009 | 18 | #1,621 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
How popular is Nahla in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,822nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 60 about 1 in 27,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 60 girls in the US were named Nahla, making it the 2,822nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,389th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 306 girls. It first appears in the records in 1977.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Nahla than any year since 2007.
Half of all the girls named Nahla in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 408 girls in the US were given Nahla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #699, up from #2,822 for this spelling alone.
Nahla in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,822 |
| 2024 | 65 | #2,661 |
| 2023 | 81 | #2,269 |
| 2022 | 115 | #1,782 |
| 2021 | 188 | #1,249 |
| 2020 | 157 | #1,389 |
| 2019 | 128 | #1,648 |
| 2018 | 141 | #1,540 |
| 2017 | 176 | #1,321 |
| 2016 | 201 | #1,224 |
| 2015 | 197 | #1,239 |
| 2014 | 202 | #1,205 |
| 2013 | 258 | #974 |
| 2012 | 279 | #922 |
| 2011 | 306 | #861 |
| 2010 | 241 | #1,035 |
| 2009 | 164 | #1,426 |
| 2008 | 85 | #2,295 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,865 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,386 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,020 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,830 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,099 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,125 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,396 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
Names like Nahla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Zainab, Rahma, Abeeha, Ayah, Nusaybah, Huda, Amira, Ayra, Safaa
Other spellings of Nahla
Names related to Nahla
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nahla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nahla, updated 20 October 2026.