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Nour

#1,531 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

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Nour has been given to 3,462 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #1,531 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 139 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.

Babies named Nour, 2025

1 in 23,900

Nour over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Nour over time

In 2025, Nour went to 94% girls and 6% boys.

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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.

Nour: meaning, origin, and history

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Arabic

What Nour means

Nour means “light”, associated with nūr.

Origin, language, and formation

Nour is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Nour comes through Arabic نُور.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nur.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Nour is pronounced /nuʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,877 girls were recorded with the name Nour between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 139 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,531 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,189 in 2020 to #1,531 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,037 in 2015 to #1,531 in 2025.

In the United States, 585 boys were recorded with the name Nour between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,764 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,810 in 2020 to #8,713 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,506 in 2015 to #8,713 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 Nour?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,900
139 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,531
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
16,533 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nour 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 16,533 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nour. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nours were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nour was born before 2010 — so the typical Nour is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,877
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (870).

Is Nour 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
+333
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+658
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+506
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (139)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,531
2025

Spellings of Nour

Nour is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 50.6% against Nour's 0.75%.

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 Nour is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Nour was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 5,000 girls, against 1 in 12,346 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

220 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 5,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 5,263
  3. 3New York1 in 7,692
  4. 4Virginia1 in 7,692
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 9,091
  6. 6Florida1 in 11,111
  7. 7California1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

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 Nour is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Nour was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 856,125 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Nour has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nour around the world

Where Nour 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
    #661
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2024
    #541
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2007–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1973–2025
    #16
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #455
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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 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.

Notable people named Nour

People whose public names include Nour, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nour in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Nour. Linked forms have their own page here.

Nur

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Nour by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,531
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 658
Best rank ever
#1,531
2025
Peak year
2025
139 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,877
Count in 2025
139

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,713
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,903
Best rank ever
#3,764
2007
Peak year
2007
28 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
585
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Nour

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

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Names with a curve like Nour

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

KarelyFatoumataMarbellaHibaAminataSedonaSiannaAriesAleyaKhaliaAnayeliNoelani

Sibling names for Nour

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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