Nurul

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Nurul has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 1988, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Nurul, 1988

1 in 462,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Nurul?

Nurul had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 462,000
8 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 223,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
320,080 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nurul 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 1988 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 320,080 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nurul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nuruls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nurul was born before 1988 — so the typical Nurul is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Nurul 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 1988 (8)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,972
1988

Spellings of Nurul

Nurul is not the most common spelling — Nuri is, with 28.3% against Nurul's 0.32%.

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.

Nurul around the world

Where Nurul 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
    1996–2011
    #4,049
    in 2011
  • Scotland
    1985–1998
    #664
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1986–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Nurul 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
#8,972
1988
Peak year
1988
8 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nurul

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

Sibling names for Nurul

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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