Najla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Najla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: large-eyed, wide-eyed.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 116K
- QAQatar≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Qatar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
large-eyed, wide-eyed
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Najla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #641 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Najla | 109 |
| AF Afghanistan | #980 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Najla | 11 |
| TN Tunisia | #265 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Najla | 43 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,822 | 1 in 116K | 1.8K | Najla | 84 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #646 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Najla | 69 |
| QA Qatar | #148 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Najla | 44 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Najla Boudenb. 1958TNTunisian engineer, academic and politician
- Najla Bourielb. 1970TNTunisian politician
- Najla Mangoushb. 1973GBLibyan politician and lawyer
- Najla Ben Abdallahb. 1980TNTunisian actress
- Princess Najla bint Hamad of Bahrainb. 1981BHBahraini Royal
- Najla El Zeinb. 1983LBLebanese artist and designer (born 1983)
- Najla Krifab. 1992TNTunisian chess player
- Najla SaadaouiTNTunisian politician
- Najla Allani BouhoulaTNTunisian researcher
- Najla HarrathiTNTunisian association football player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 35 countries.
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Najla mean, and where does it come from?
- large-eyed, wide-eyed Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- 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 are other forms of the name Najla?
- In the etymology graph, Necla and Nejla are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Najla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.3 thousand people named Najla in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled najla.
- How common is the name Najla?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,822 people named Najla in 2022, about 1 in 116 thousand residents.
- How common is Najla compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Najla is the 641st most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/najlaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 641st most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.