Nahla (نهلة) is the Arabic word for the "first drink of water" — particularly precious in desert culture. A traditional Arabic feminine name.
Nahla Goelnitz is the contemporary Egyptian-American name. Nala (Disney's Lion King) shares the etymology.
Nahla does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nahla reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.