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Nuray

Girls' name

From Ottoman Turkish نورای; literal meaning unconfirmed

Nuray has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 2011. 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 2024, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Nuray, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nuray: meaning, origin, and history

From Ottoman Turkish نورای; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nuray means

Nuray is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nuray is used in Turkish.

Nuray comes through Ottoman Turkish نورای.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Nuray between 2011 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #13,099 in 2024.

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 Nuray?

Nuray had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nuray 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nuray. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nurays were born

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

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Nuray 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2024 (7)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,099
2024

Spellings of Nuray

Nuray is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 72.8% against Nuray'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.

Nuray around the world

Where Nuray 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
    2005–2015
    #5,730
    in 2015
  • France
    1974–2019
    #4,791
    in 2019
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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

Nuray 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
—
Best rank ever
#13,099
2024
Peak year
2024
7 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nuray

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

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Sibling names for Nuray

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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