Neila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Modern feminine form, likely from Arabic origin; meaning varies by source
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nejlɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 9.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 17K
- BRBrazil1 in 20K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
10,590 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Modern feminine form, likely from Arabic origin; meaning varies by source.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 10,590 | 1 in 20K | 12K | Neila | 98 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Neila | 17 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 4 | Neila | 41 |
| TN Tunisia | #363 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Neila | 24 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 2.3K | — | 2 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Neila | 12 |
10,590 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024). 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)
Neila is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine celtique, signifie « championne ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Neila Tavaresb. 1948BRBrazilian actress
- Neila Gonjib. 1959TNTunisian senior civil servant and politician
- Naila Ayeshb. 1960PSnot in their usual namePalestinian activist
- Neila Chaabaneb. 1961TNTunisian politician
- Neila Medeirosb. 1977BRBrazilian journalist
- Neila Boushakib. 1980DZPharmacology researcher
- Neïla Latrousb. 1986FRFrench journalist of Algerian origin
- Naila Al AtrashSYnot in their usual nameSyrian actress
- Neila BenzinaTNTunisian businesswoman
- Neila Trifi FarahTNTunisian researcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 12K | #1,954 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 11K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 11K | #1,641 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.9K | #1,760 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 43 | #1,641 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 39 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #117 |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Neila mean, and where does it come from?
- Modern feminine form, likely from Arabic origin; meaning varies by source. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Neila?
- A machine transcription gives /nejlɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Neila a male or female name?
- Neila 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.
- In which country does Neila have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Neila, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neila.
- How common is the name Neila?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 10,590 people named Neila in 2022, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Neila compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Neila is the 363rd most common given name of 13,277 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Neila?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neilaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Neila” — the 363rd most common given name in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.