Najla

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Najla is a given name, most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: large-eyed, wide-eyed.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait1 in 2.3K◐
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 12K
  • SYSyria1 in 30K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.7K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
134 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 25K ◐

Slovenia

Meaning & origin●

large-eyed, wide-eyed

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Najla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SA Saudi Arabia#6501,928586 rec.——Najla101
BR Brazil—1,822△801 rec.1 in 116K1.8KNajla87
US United States—1,1853.8K rec.1 in 281K1.2KNajla134
SY Syria—1,1001.2K rec.——Najla13
KW Kuwait#2261,002338 rec.——Najla31
QA Qatar#165882630 rec.——Najla43
TN Tunisia#344876771 rec.——Najla36
AE United Arab Emirates#769524415 rec.——Najla66
TR Türkiye—332350 rec.——Najla9
MX Mexico—272148 rec.—2Najla35
EG Egypt—258138 rec.—listedNajla30
LY Libya#414239211 rec.——Najla14

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese25K40%
  • Arabic10K16%
  • English8.8K14%
  • French4.2K7%
  • Indonesian2.9K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese25,27540%
Arabic10,05316%
English8,82414%
French4,2457%
Indonesian2,9325%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Najla is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name11K records spelled Najla10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Netherlands, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Nàjlà, Ñajlā, Nâjlá, Nájla

  • Indonesian given name4.9K records spelled Najla7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Najla, Najla', Ñäjlã

  • French given name4.6K records spelled Najla10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Nājlã, Nàjla, Nâjlâ, Nájla, Ñàjlá

  • Hindi given name1.9K records spelled Najla3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Syria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Nàjla

  • a separate given name581 records spelled Najla2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Tunisia, United Kingdom

    Also written Nájla

  • Albanian given name207 records spelled Najla2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania

    Also written Nàjla

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Najla is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Having big eyes.

    as a nameThe African book of names

  • progeny

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names

  • In Spanish, Arabic, ‘large-eyed’.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01020301980199020002010202026 · 2001

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Najla in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1975–2025
Yearrecords
19757
197610
197711
197820
197917
198015
198113
19829
19839
19849
198515
19868
198710
19887
198922
19908
199114
199211
199320
199419
199521
199613
199717
199822
199911
200014
200126
200215
200321
200416
200513
20067
200716
200810
200911
20109
20117
201211
201315
201413
20159
201611
201718
201812
201913
20207
20218
20228
20236
20246
202513

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 51 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Najla Bouden, b. 1958Najla Bouriel, b. 1970Najla Mangoush, b. 1973Najla Ben Abdallah, b. 1980Princess Najla bint Hamad of Bahrain, b. 1981Najla El Zein, b. 1983Najla Krifa, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 55 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Najla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.8K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.8K#5,460
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—1.8K#3,035
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.7K#6,492
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,971
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2021340#2,335
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—198#5,259
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020166—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—162#5,582
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—134#4,627
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—129#6,928
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—123#2,870

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 298 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Najla?
We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Najla (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Najla have the most bearers?
Najla is most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia, where it is most often spelled najla.
How common is Najla compared with other names?
In Saudi Arabia, Najla is the 650th most common given name of 51,390 given names recorded there.
Is Najla a male or female name?
Najla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Najla mean?
Recorded meaning: large-eyed, wide-eyed
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Najla” — the 650th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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