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Noor

#659 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

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Noor has been given to 9,353 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #659 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 435 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% girls, 12% boys all-time.

Babies named Noor, 2025

1 in 7,620

Noor over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Noor over time

In 2025, Noor went to 91% girls and 9% boys.

19792025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Noor: meaning, origin, and history

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Arabic

What Noor means

Noor means “light”, associated with nūr.

Origin, language, and formation

Noor is used in English and Dutch. Its origins include Arabic.

Noor comes through Arabic نُور.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nora and Eleonoor.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Noor is pronounced /nɔɹ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,276 girls were recorded with the name Noor between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 435 in 2025; its best national rank was #659 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #887 in 2020 to #659 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #991 in 2015 to #659 in 2025.

In the United States, 1,077 boys were recorded with the name Noor between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,514 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,248 in 2020 to #2,916 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,901 in 2015 to #2,916 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Noor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,620
435 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,690
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#659
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,284 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noor was born before 2013 — so the typical Noor is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (2,673).

Is Noor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+52
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+228
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+332
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (435)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#659
2025

Spellings of Noor

Noor is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 53.2% against Noor's 2.3%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Noor is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Noor was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 1,429 girls, against 1 in 3,772 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

270 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 1,429
  2. 2Virginia1 in 1,786
  3. 3New York1 in 1,923
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 2,222
  5. 5Maryland1 in 2,381
  6. 6Illinois1 in 2,500
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 2,564
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 2,564

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Noor is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Noor was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 371,401 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Virginia1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Noor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Noor around the world

Where Noor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #181
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–2025
    #272
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2023
    #391
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #381
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #192
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #171
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #294
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Noor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#659
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 228
Best rank ever
#659
2025
Peak year
2025
435 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,276
Count in 2025
435

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,916
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 332
Best rank ever
#2,514
2005
Peak year
2022
54 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,077
Count in 2025
43

Names similar to Noor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Noor

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Noor, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Noor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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