Tanzila
Fewer than 60 women in Poland carry it, and most Poles have never met one. An Arabic name meaning "revelation" or "sent down", it went to a handful of girls in the early 2000s and none since.
Tanzila Pronunciation
Tanzila is pronounced tahn-ZHEE-lah (/tanˈʑila/).
What Tanzila means
Where Tanzila comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tanzila belongs to Arabic naming, built on the root n-z-l, meaning to descend or come down. From that root grows tanzil, the verbal noun for sending down. Muslim tradition uses tanzil for the revelation of the Quran, the text brought down to the Prophet. The name sits close to that vocabulary.
The short meaning stays plain: revelation, sent down. That sense reaches back to the religious word, where what comes from above arrives as something given. A person named Tanzila holds a word about arrival.
On a Polish school register, Tanzila would stand among the Zuzannas and the Krzysztofs, one Arabic word among Slavic ones. It has no Polish diminutive of its own. Beside it, a Polish gloss would read objawienie, revelation.
How many people are named Tanzila
1 in 395506 women in Poland is named Tanzila. 57 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4927 among female names.
Tanzila's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.