Baby name
RISING
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Nala
/NAH · lah/
Meaning
“Successful or plenty”
From Zulu and Tswana meaning 'successful' or 'plenty'; also a Sanskrit name meaning 'stem' and widely recognized as the lioness character in Disney's The Lion King.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
warmplayful
How it ages.
Warm and rising; pop culture has given it global lift without making it feel cheap.
The cultural moment.
Rising sharply in the US, UK, and Germany since 2015, accelerated by The Lion King remake in 2019.