Nahla

Where Nahla comes from

The dictionaries list Nahla as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1977
    First appearance
    #9,652 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Nahla Ramadan born
    Egyptian weightlifter
  3. 1986
    Nahla El Fatiha Naili born
    Algerian sculptor
  4. 2011
    Peak, #861
    306 babies named Nahla — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,540.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Nahla El Fatiha Naili · Algerian sculptor, born 1986
  • Nahla Ramadan · Egyptian weightlifter, born 1985
  • Nahla Mahmoud · Sudanese-born British writer and activist, born 1986
  • Nahla Hussain al-Shaly · Iraqi politician, 1971–2008
  • Nahla Chahal · Lebanese activist and journalist, born 1953

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.