Nigella

Feminine variation of Nigel; botanical name from Latin

"black"

Nigella Origin and Meaning

The name Nigella is a girl's name meaning "black".

A name that sounded unthinkably priggish until it became attached to Domestic Goddess British TV chef Nigella Lawson (named for her father), who gave it a big dollop of glamour.

Famous People Named Nigella

• Nigella Lucy Lawson British TV chef
• Nigella Jekyll Saunders Jamaican badminton player

The name Nigella in Pop Culture

• Nigella genus of flowering plants including black caraway and devil,in,a,bush or love,in,a,mist