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Nura

#3,238 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Nur

Nura has been given to 904 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #3,238 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 57 recorded.

Babies named Nura, 2025

1 in 67,700

Nura over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nura: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Nur

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nura means

Nura is a feminine form of Nur.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nur.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 904 girls were recorded with the name Nura between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 57 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,918 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,436 in 2020 to #3,238 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,684 in 2015 to #3,238 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 Nura?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 67,700
49 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 32,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,238
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
46,897 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nura 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 46,897 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nuras were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
904
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Choose a decade

2010s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (321).

Is Nura 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
−25
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+198
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,446
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.0%
Peak was 2019 (57)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,918
2019

Spellings of Nura

Nura is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 21.4% against Nura'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 Nura is used

Across 1910–2025, Nura was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 418,416 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Minnesota1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Nura has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nura around the world

Where Nura 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
    #845
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2024
    #5,357
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nura by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,238
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 198
Best rank ever
#2,918
2019
Peak year
2019
57 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
904
Count in 2025
49

Names similar to Nura

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

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Sibling names for Nura

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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