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Nouri

#8,724 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Alternate transcription of Nuri

Nouri has been given to 178 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #8,724 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 25 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 71% girls, 29% boys all-time.

Babies named Nouri, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Nouri went to 67% girls and 33% boys.

20062025

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.

Nouri: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Nuri

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nouri means

Nouri is a alternate transcription of Nuri.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Nouri → Nuri → نُورِيّ. The family’s meaning is “brightness, gleam, glow”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements نُورِيّ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nuri.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 127 girls were recorded with the name Nouri between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,218 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,077 in 2020 to #8,724 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,904 in 2015 to #8,724 in 2025.

In the United States, 51 boys were recorded with the name Nouri between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2016; its best national rank was #10,418 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,592 in 2020 to #11,618 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.

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How common is Nouri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,724
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nouri 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nouri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nouris were born

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

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
72.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
127
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Choose a decade

2020s — 72.4% of all recorded uses (92).

Is Nouri 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
+86
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,353
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,180
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.0%
Peak was 2023 (25)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,218
2023

Spellings of Nouri

Nouri is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 47.7% against Nouri'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.

Where Nouri is used

Across 1910–2025, Nouri was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Nouri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nouri around the world

Where Nouri 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
    2021–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025

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

Nouri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,724
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,353
Best rank ever
#5,218
2023
Peak year
2023
25 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
127
Count in 2025
12

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,618
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 26
Best rank ever
#10,418
2016
Peak year
2016
7 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
51
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Nouri

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

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Sibling names for Nouri

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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