Entry № 7467 · Tamil origin

Nila Nila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"Moon, blue"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Tamil)

A name that means "moon, blue".

Nila (நிலா) is the Tamil word for "moon." In Sanskrit (नीला), it means "blue" or "sapphire-colored" — also an epithet of Krishna and of the river goddess.

Nila is widely used in South India and Sri Lanka.

Moon. The Tamil lunar.

The name in its native script.

நிலா
Transliteration
Nilā
Pronunciation
/ ˈniː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nila stands.

Nila 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.

Nilas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nila
Common in Tamil cinema.

Names connected to Nila.

The number behind Nila.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nila reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.