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Nouf

#10,693 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Nauf

Nouf has been given to 60 babies in the U.S. since 2013. In 2025 it ranked #10,693 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nouf, 2025

1 in 368,000

Nouf over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nouf: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Nauf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nouf means

Nouf is a alternate transcription of Nauf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nauf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 60 girls were recorded with the name Nouf between 2013 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2023; its best national rank was #10,130 in 2023.

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.

How common is Nouf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,693
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nouf 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nouf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noufs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nouf was born before 2022 — so the typical Nouf is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
56.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
60
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 56.7% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Nouf 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
+1,183
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2023 (10)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,130
2023

Spellings of Nouf

Nouf is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 51.2% against Nouf's 0.02%.

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.

Nouf around the world

Where Nouf 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
    2000–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nouf by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,693
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,130
2023
Peak year
2023
10 that year
First recorded
2013
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
60
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Nouf

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

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Sibling names for Nouf

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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