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Nuran

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Nuran has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2022, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Nuran, 2022

1 in 423,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nuran: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Nuran means

Nuran is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nuran is used in Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Nuran between 2003 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2022; its best national rank was #11,943 in 2022.

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 Nuran?

Nuran had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 423,000
8 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 205,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
293,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nuran 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 2022 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 293,354 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nuran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nurans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nuran was born before 2015 — so the typical Nuran is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Nuran 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 2022 (8)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,943
2022

Spellings of Nuran

Nuran is not the most common spelling — Susan is, with 79.3% against Nuran's <0.01%.

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.

Nuran around the world

Where Nuran 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
    2008–2015
    #4,736
    in 2015
  • France
    1976–2019
    #5,811
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Nuran 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
#11,943
2022
Peak year
2022
8 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nuran

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

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Sibling names for Nuran

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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