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Noura

#2,232 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Nura

Noura has been given to 1,219 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #2,232 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Noura, 2025

1 in 39,900

Noura over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Noura: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Nura

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Noura means

Noura is a alternate transcription of Nura.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nura.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,219 girls were recorded with the name Noura between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,094 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,377 in 2020 to #2,232 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,901 in 2015 to #2,232 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.

How common is Noura?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 39,900
83 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,232
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
27,687 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noura 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 27,687 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nouras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noura was born before 2016 — so the typical Noura is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,219
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (412).

Is Noura 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
−138
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,145
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,669
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.2%
Peak was 2024 (92)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,094
2024

Spellings of Noura

Noura is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 42.5% against Noura's 0.06%.

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 Noura is used

Across 2016–2025, Noura was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 29,242 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 16,667
  3. 3Virginia1 in 16,667
  4. 4Michigan1 in 20,000
  5. 5California1 in 25,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Texas1 in 33,333
  8. 8Maryland1 in 50,000

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.

Noura around the world

Where Noura 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
    #431
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1955–2025
    #642
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,023
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2000
    #727
    in 2000

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

Noura by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,232
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,145
Best rank ever
#2,094
2024
Peak year
2024
92 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,219
Count in 2025
83

Names similar to Noura

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

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Sibling names for Noura

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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