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Nupur

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Nupur has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2001, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Nupur, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nupur: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Nupur means

Nupur is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nupur is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 110 girls were recorded with the name Nupur between 1984 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2001; its best national rank was #9,902 in 2001.

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 Nupur?

Nupur had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nupur 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nupur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nupurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nupur was born before 1999 — so the typical Nupur is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
110
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.4% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Nupur 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
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Not ranked then
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
0%
Peak was 2001 (10)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,902
2001

Spellings of Nupur

Nupur is not the most common spelling — Nour is, with 79.2% against Nupur's 3.0%.

  • Nour79.2%2,877
  • Nur17.8%647
  • Nupur3.0%110

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.

Nupur around the world

Where Nupur 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.

  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nupur by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,902
2001
Peak year
2001
10 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
110
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Nupur

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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