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Nur

#4,246 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Brightness, gleam, glow, through نُور

Nur has been given to 863 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #4,246 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 52 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% girls, 25% boys all-time.

Babies named Nur, 2025

1 in 97,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2025, Nur went to 68% girls and 32% 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.

Nur: meaning, origin, and history

Brightness, gleam, glow, through نُور

Arabic

What Nur means

Nur belongs to the name family reached through Nur → نُور. Its meaning is “brightness, gleam, glow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Nur is used in Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay, Tausug and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Nur comes through Arabic نُور.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include نُور.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Nur is pronounced /ˈnur/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 647 girls were recorded with the name Nur between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,172 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,623 in 2020 to #4,246 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,342 in 2015 to #4,246 in 2025.

In the United States, 216 boys were recorded with the name Nur between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,774 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,285 in 2020 to #5,774 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,580 in 2015 to #5,774 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 Nur?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,246
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nur 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nur. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nurs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nur was born before 2014 — so the typical Nur is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
647
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2020s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (212).

Is Nur 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
+494
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+377
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,096
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.4%
Peak was 2023 (52)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,172
2023

Where Nur is used

Across 1910–2025, Nur was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,127,926 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Nur has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nur around the world

Where Nur 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
    #1,315
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1987–2016
    #675
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2008–2013
    #747
    in 2013
  • France
    1983–2025
    #1,789
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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.

Nur by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,246
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 377
Best rank ever
#3,172
2023
Peak year
2023
52 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
647
Count in 2025
34

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,774
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,511
Best rank ever
#5,774
2025
Peak year
2025
16 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
216
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Nur

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

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Sibling names for Nur

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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